TY - JOUR AU - Wegmann, Monika PY - 2014/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Transcending the Line - Focusing on the Spot: An Alternative Approach for the Cartographic Representation of Dialects JF - Linguistica Atlantica JA - Ling Atlan VL - 27 IS - SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/22637 SP - 147-154 AB - <p>My research has shown that the east and the southeast of England are not homogeneous dialect areas and that the neat lines on dialect maps - boundaries and isoglosses alike-hide much of the internal variability. I have demonstrated elsewhere that "there are no clearly defined dialect boundaries in the East and the South-East of England" (Wegmann 2004: 183), and on the basis of the heterogeneity in the area under consideration, I shall argue, in accordance with Chambers and Trudgill (1998: 104), that "variability causes the isogloss to vanish." Although I was generally inspired by Chambers and Trudgill's suggestions as to how to deal with variability in their Dialectology book, I will not follow them in detail; rather, this paper presents the major aspects of my own approach, developed on the basis of their suggestions.</p> ER -