Download or read book Methods in Dialectology written by Alan R. Thomas and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1988 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change.