Tanulmány (study): itt
Szerző (author)
Gábor Ferenczi
Cím (title)
Paths and opportunities: geolinguistic methods in dialectology
Hivatkozás (references)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53644/EH.2023.2.20
Absztrakt (abstract)
The dimensional approach to language is a feature of contemporary linguistic re- search, in which the three main dimensions of language functioning – spatial, tempo- ral, and human – are brought together as an integral whole. Geolinguistics as a specific method of work and approach to analysis, approaches the temporal and social aspects from the spatial point of view. This method has made a major contribution to the ex- ploration of the spatiality of linguistic phenomena and the closely related regularities. The basic material is a collection of dialectal or multilingual words, represented by maps, arranged in atlases, which depict the distribution of sounds, shapes, words, and meanings. The origin of geolinguistics can be dated to the last quarter of the 19th century, and its development to the 20th century: in addition to classical dialectology and diachronic linguistics, the new grammar school also played a major role in the creation of this method. Over time, its use in the study of regional variants within languages has in- creasingly extended to cross-language studies as well. Nowadays, the method of pro- ducing language atlases has become much more sophisticated: they reflect both the semantic changes in linguistics that are periodically renewed, and the basic data rep- resentation procedures brought about by modern technological developments.
Kulcsszavak (keywords)
dialectology, dimensional language approach, geolinguistics, isogloss, language atlas, data informatization, KNyK project.