In:Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 475–481
Dialectology
Published online: 3 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.dia1
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.dia1
Article outline
- 1.Definition
- 2.An outline of history
- 3.Aims of the investigation
- 3.1The impact of history on the origin and evolution of languages
- 3.2Linguistic reconstruction
- 3.3The study of universals of language, especially implicational scales
- 3.4Sociopragmatic and attitudinal aspects
- 3.5Communicative aspects
- 4.Dialect atlases
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