Lawrence M. Davis

Easily Manipulatable Databases for Linguistic Atlases: Using Intergraph

Davis and Houck 1988 raised the issue of the current value of linguistic atlas data, mainly because, in our view, no dialectologist has really answered Glenna Pickford, who noted that dialectologists tend to describe primarily the language of older, uneducated subjects, native to, in Pickford’s terms, &dquo;culturally subordinate&dquo; communities (1956). Similar claims were made by Underwood (1976, 1988). If we are to use computers for linguistic atlases, we have

Our Marvelous Native Tongue@@@Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language

1. English Discerned 2. Emergent English 3. English Abroad 4. World English 5. English Transplanted 6. Postcolonial English 7. English Improved 8. Imaginary English 9. English Imperiled 10. Proper English.