The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, theory, practice
Stefan Dollinger
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 40] 2015. xxvii, 397 pp.
Stefan Dollinger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefan Dollinger plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries
Stefan Dollinger
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 97] 2008. xxii, 355 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
Articles
2022 Canadian English lexis and semantics: A historical-comparative resource in contrastive, real-time perspective, 1683–2016 Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 205–230 | Chapter
This paper introduces the use of a historical dictionary as a linguistic resource. This dictionary, the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Second Edition (Dollinger & Fee 2017) affords a new real-time perspective on the Canadian vocabulary. As it is based on an empirical,… read more
2019 Chapter 3. ‘I hope you will excuse my bad writing’: Shall vs. will in the 1830s Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC) Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 43–66 | Chapter
This chapter introduces a new resource, the Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC), which consists of some 90,000 words of letters from Southern English emigrants to Canada in the 1830s. Empirically, the chapter addresses the change from first person shall to will in a multi-variety… read more
2019 Nan Jiang. 2018. Second Language Processing: An Introduction English World-Wide 40:1, pp. 113–118 | Review
2010 Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 197–222 | Article
The study of Canadian English has, for the most part, relied on synchronic data and description. Via the apparent-time method and earlier linguistic studies, evidence is available for the most part of the twentieth century. This paper provides possible pathways towards examining pre-twentieth… read more
Dovetailing with Nazism: Eberhard Kranzmayer’s fascist years and the One Standard German Axiom (OSGA) Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8,061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Klagenfurt and Berlin. This account reconstructs Kranzmayer’s role in the Nazi machine,… read more