Dialectology
Dialectology studies the fundamentals of researching language variation between and within communities [Chambers, 13].
Dialectology is the study of variation in language's lexical and structural components. It is typically associated with the research of geographical variation, mostly in rural areas. Hence, there are much dialectological work today concentrates mainly on social variation in urban areas [Malmkjaer, 127].
The study of variations between different dialects is known as dialectology [Baldick, 64].
Dialectology (linguistic geography, dialect geography) is the systematic study of all dialect forms, but primarily regional dialects. Traditional dialectology studies began in the 19th century in the form of detailed polls using questionnaires and interviews recorded on the tape. Regionally unique words (different in form, meaning, or pronunciation) were at the prime focus. If a number of distinctive items all belong to a particular area, this was the evidence that a dialect existed [Crystal, 142].
⠀ 1. Chambers J.K., Trudgill Peter. (1998). Dialectology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
⠀ 2. Kirsten Malmkjaer. (2002). The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia. 3d edition. London: Routledge.
⠀ 3. Chris Baldick. (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
⠀ 4. David Crystal. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th Edition. New-Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.