As a comprehensive account of all aspects of dialectology this updated edition makes an ideal introduction to the subject.

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews esse

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass med

This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variati