Do you have any favourite books on dialectology? I’ve just finished a degree in English Language and a dissertation on the Essex accent and I want to keep learning about it; they don’t necessarily have to be about English dialects though. Sorry for the long ask and thanks in advance!! 😊
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Now to your question: most dialectology I did was in and about German, I don’t know how much that’s help you. A few books that I would recommend, though:
Chambers, John K., and Peter Trudgill. Dialectology. 2. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998
Niebaum, Hermann, and Jürgen Macha. Einführung in die Dialektologie des Deutschen. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999
Wiese, Heike. Kiezdeutsch - ein neuer Dialekt entsteht. Originalausgabe, zweite, durchges. Ausg. München: Beck, 2012
Stevenson, Patrick. Language and German disunity - a sociolinguistic history of East and West Germany, 1945 - 2000. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002
Burridge, Kate. Blooming English - observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004
Duszak, Anna, and Urszula Okulska. Speaking from the margin - global English from a European perspective. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004