Preface

Martin J. Ball: Introduction

Gary R. Butler: Discourse Variation and the Study of Communicative Competence

Marvin K.L. Ching: Ma'am and Sir: Modes of Mitigation and Politeness in the Southern United States

Irma Aloyce Ewing Cunningham: Some Innovative Linguistic and Procedural Solutions, Relative to Sea lsland Creole, in General; Some Aspects of the Sea Island Creole Verbal Auxiliary in Particular

Gaelan Dodds de Wolf and Erika Hasebe-Ludt: Canadian Urban Survey Methodology: A Summary of Research Techniques and Results

Wynford Bellin: Linguistic Variation and Welsh Mutations in Children

Karin Flikeid: Stylistic Variation in Nova Scotia Acadian French

Timothy C. Frazer: Commercial Television as a Source of Language Data

Ruth King and Robert Ryan: The Construction of a Rural Sociolinguistic Corpus: The Prince Edward Island Study

Natalie Maynor: Written Records of Spoken Language: How Reliable Are They?

Rose Mary Babitch: Diachronic Interlinguistic Contact as Reflected in the Typological Structure of Today's Acadian Fishermen's Terminology

Michael D. Linn and Ronald R. Regal: Verb Analysis of the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States: A Case Study in Preliminary Analysis of a Large Data Set

James Arthurs: Terminology vs Jargon: Canadian Hockey Talk

G.M. Awbery: Slander and Defamation as a Source for Historical Dialectology

John Baugh: Beyond Linguistic Divergence in Black American English: Competing Norms of Linguistic Prestige and Variation

Wladyslaw Cichocki: Uses of Dual Scaling in Social Dialectology: Multidimensional Analysis of Vowel Variation

William A. Kretzschmar Jr.: Computers and the American Linguistic Atlas

Lawrence M. Davis: The Limits of Chi Square

Rick Evans: The Quantitative Paradigm and the Study of Literacy: A New Initiative in Variation Studies

Dennis Girard and Donald Larmouth: Log-Linear Statistical Models: Explaining the Dynamics of Dialect Diffusion

Urs Diirmiiller: Research on Mural Sprayscripts (Graffiti)

Robert B. Hausmann: Linguistics and Dialectology: Controlling Strange Data

Tsuneko Ikemlya: Acoustic Comparative Study of Contradictory /a:/ and / / between Maine Dialect and General American

Frederic G. Cassidy: Focus of Change in American Folk Speech

Virginia G. McDavid: Sex-Linked Differences Among Atlas Informants: Irregular Verbs

Graham McGregor: Eavesdropping and the Analysis of Everyday Verbal Exchange

Dennis R. Preston: Methods in the Study of Dialect Perceptions

Edgar W. Schneider: Informants' Response Ratings in the Survey of English Dialects

Gary Neal Underwood: Accent and Identity

Jacob Bennett: A Method for Discovering Historical Language Variation

Robert J. Gregg: The Study of Linguistic Change in the Study of Vancouver English

Miklos Konrra and Maria Gosy: Approximation of the Standard: A Form of Variability in Bilingual Speech

Ronald K.S. Macaulay: A Microsociolinguistic Study of the Dialect of Ayr

Michael I. Miller: Ransacking Linguistic Survey Data with a Number Cruncher

Michael Montgomery: The Roots of Appalachian English

John M. Kirk: The Dialectology of Scots: The Use of Dramatic Texts

Peter Wynn Thomas: Locating Minority Language Informants: A Network Approach to Fieldwork

Wolfgang Viereck: The Computerisation and Quantification of Linguistic Data: Dialectometrical Methods

Werner H. Veith: Linguistic Atlasses of German: A Survey of Computer-Aided Projects

Joan H. Hall: Caught in the Web of Change

Ossi Ihalainen: Creative Linguistic Databases from Machine-Readable Dialect Texts

Bernhard Kelle: The Automatic Computation of Linguistic Maps with the Aid of Cluster Analysis

Richard A. Spears: Managing Phrasal Data with a Microcomputer Generated Concordance

Beat Glauser: Aitken’s Context in Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Material from the Survey of English and Dialects (SED)

Mailande Cheney Sledge: The Versimilitude of the Gullah Dialect in Francis Griswold’s A Sea Island Lady

Ronald R. Butters: The Historical Present as Evidence of Black/White Convergence/Divergence

J.K. Chambers: Acquisition of Phonological Variants

Einar Haugen: Dialects as Stepping Stones to a Language

John J. Staczek: Variation in the Plural Reflexive in Spoken English: Preliminary Evidence for Merger

Sandra Clark: Linguistic Variation in the Non-Stratified Context