Dictionary of American Regional English

美国地区英语词典，美国方言协会官方词典，讨论说美式英语的人之间的地区和社会差异。基于对美国1002个社区的当代(1965-1970年)田野调查的广泛项目，以及同样广泛的历史和书面资料收集，DARE包括了从美国各地到另一个地区或从一个社会群体到另一个社会群体的不同单词、短语和发音。该词典提供了完整的历史处理，包括发音、异体形式、词源、地理分布、社会和用法标签、注释定义、日期声明和交叉引用。DARE的一个独特功能是包含(在文本中)显示词、短语或形式的地区分布的地图。第一卷包括导言材料和字母A-C，于1985年出版，受到学者、评论家和公众的好评。第二卷(D-H)将于1990年出版。另外三卷将完成该项目，其中包括两卷正文和一卷参考书目、地区和社会对比地图以及实地考察期间收集的所有数据的摘要。成交量将大约每五年出现一次。DARE不仅将提供地区性美国英语的完整记录，而且还将在词典文本和未使用的数据中提供资源，以刺激进一步的语言学研究。

ABSTRACT The Dictionary of American Regional English, official dictionary of the American Dialect Society, treats both regional and social variation among speakers of American English. Based on an extensive program of contemporary (1965-70) fieldwork in 1002 communities across the U.S., and an equally extensive collection of historical and written sources, DARE includes words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one part of the country to another or from one social group to another. The Dictionary provides full historical treatment, with pronunciations, variant forms, etymologies, geographical distributions, social and usage labels, notes definitions, dated quatations, and cross- references, as appropriate. A unique feature of DARE is the inclusion (within the text) of maps showing regional distributions of words, phrases, or forms. Volume I, containing introductory matter and the letters A-C, was published in 1985 to the acclaim of scholars, reviewers, and the public as well. Volume II (D-H) will appear in 1990. Three more volumes, including two more of text and one containing the bibliography, contrastive regional and social maps, and summary of all the data collected during the fieldwork, will complete the project. Volumes will appear at approximately five-year intervals. DARE will not only provide a full record of regional American English, but will alos furnish, both in the Dictionary text and in the unused data, the resources to stimulate much further linguistic research.