STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK REPORT
Introduction
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Title of the book
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Dialectology
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Author’s name
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J.K. Chambers and
Peter Trudgill
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Publisher
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Press Syndicate
of the University of Cambridge
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City
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Cambridge
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Year of publication
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1980
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Summary of content
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Proportional summary weight
of the important points of each section (Chapter/unit)
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1.
Dialect and Language
Dialectology is the study of dialect and dialects. But
in exactly dialect. Dialect is also a term which is often applied to forms of
language, particularly those spoken in more isolated parts of the words,
which have no written form.
2.
Dialect geography
Among the most commonplace observations that human
beings make from day to day are dialect differences.
3.
Dialectology and Linguistics
In this chapter Dialectology divided into
3.1 Dialectology and philology
3.2 Structural dialectology
3.3 Generative dialectology
3.4 Polylectical grammars
4.
Urban dialectology
In this chapter we note improvements and developments
of other types.
5.
Social differentiation and languange
In this chapter we examine some of relationships
between language and social features.
6.
Sosiolinguistics structure and linguistic innovation
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Boundaries
In this chapter we will take closer at same isoglosses
in order to determine their function and their usefulness in dialectology.
8.
Transitions
9.
Variability
This chapter outlines some of the main thrusts in the
attempt to integrate the analysis of variability into linguistic theory
10.
Diffusion : sociolinguistic and lexical
Innovations spread geographically and develop a
geolinguistic model to account for it.
11.
Diffusion : geographical
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Correlation between the
overall structure and content (Book structure and organization)
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In chapter 2, 3,
and 4 there are correlation because in that chapter give explaining
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Analysis of the text
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Author’s writing style
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Using a fomal
languange, give picture like maps in order the readers can understand easily
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Author’s points of view
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The author as the
source
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Author’s major hypothesis
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The author give
explaining about dialect and languange
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Evaluation of the text
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A brief summary of all the
weakness and strengths
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Weakness : too
much sentences and explaining so the readers can not understand easily.
Strengths : there
are pictures or maps and table, so we can understand easily
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Usefulness to the audience
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This book
usefulness to the audience because the audience can know about dialect and
they can do research about linguistic.
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Reasons why you
like/dislike the book
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I like this book although
this book makes me bored. But we can study about dialect easily.
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Reviewer’s name : Maulidya Andriani
Reviewer’s code : 2211412030
