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Dictionary of language and linguistics 308dialect dictionaryThe codification of regional linguistic variants from a synchronic and/or diachronicperspective. There are three principal types of dialect dictionaries: (a) comprehensive,multiregional dialect dictionaries that comprise the vocabulary of several regionaldialectal variants; (b) regional dictionaries that comprise the complete dialect of aspecific area (town, village, region, and so on); (c) those limited to a specific city or localdialect ( idioticon). ( British English, English)ReferencesAdams, R. 1968. Western words: a dictionary of the American West, 2nd edn. Norman, OK.Bailey, R.W. (ed.) 1987. Dictionaries of English: prospects for the record of our language. AnnArbor, MI.Bickerton, A. 1970. American-English, English-American: a two-way glossary of words in dailyuse on both sides of the Atlantic. Bristol.Craigie, W. and J.R.Hulbert et al. (eds) 1938–44. A dictionary of American English on historicalprinciples. Chicago, IL.Everhart, J. 1968. The illustrated Texas dictionary of the English language, 2 vols. Lincoln, NE.Grant, W. and D.Murison (eds) 1931. The Scottish national dictionary. Edinburgh.Herman, L.H. and M.S.Herman. 1947. Manual of American dialects for radio, stage, screen andtelevision. Chicago, IL.Schur, N.W. 1987. British English: A to Z. New York.Wentworth, H. (ed.) 1944. American dialect dictionary. New York.Wright, J. 1898–1905. English dialect dictionary, 6 vols. Oxford. (Repr. New York 1963.)dialectologydialect geography (also areal linguistics,linguistic geography)Subdiscipline of dialectology (sometimes equated with it) concerned with theinvestigation of the geographic distribution of linguistic phenomena. In dialectgeography, phonetic, phonological, morphological, and lexical approaches are primarilyemployed. The comprehensive collection of materials in written records (the mailing ofquestionnaires), oral data recorded phonetically, on the spot, by the interviewer in a‘question book,’ and the collection of freely spoken texts form the basis of linguisticgeographic analysis. The recorded data are then presented in the form of linguistic maps( dialect mapping, linguistic atlas) which facilitate the interpretation of the specificgeographic distribution and the structure of individual features from a historical, cultural,social (extralinguistic), and language-internal (intralinguistic) point of view.