English Dialect Dictionary Online
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
- Any user of EDD Online will profit from the manual, given the complexity of the Dictionary's substantial information on 4.700 pages
- Includes clear, step-by-step instructions on how to run searches and is illustrated with screenshots
- Gives context on various dialectological issues, opening the database to a wide range of fields
Product details
February 2021Hardback
9781108840651
220 pages
236 × 160 × 20 mm
0.5kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Orthography
- 3. Tagging
- 4. Syntax of EDD entries, and how to describe it
- 5. Some practical suggestions in hindsight
- 6. Interface
- 7. Retrieval window (advanced mode)
- 8. Research issues, encouraged by EDD Online
- 9. Focus on quantification: towards dialectometry
- 10. Final remarks on the accessibility and impact of EDD Online.