Dictionary of American Regional English

美国方言协会的官方词典《美国地区英语词典》对讲美国英语的人的地区差异和社会差异进行了研究。基于对美国1002个社区的当代（1965-70）田野调查的广泛计划，以及从17世纪到现在的同样广泛的书面资料收集，DARE包括了从国家的一个地区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的单词、短语和发音。《字典》提供了完整的历史处理，包括发音、变体形式、词源、地区标签、社会和用法标签、定义、注明日期的引文和适当的交叉参考。DARE的一个独特之处在于（在文本中）包含了显示单词、短语和形式的区域分布的地图。第一卷，包含介绍事项和字母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）于1991年出版，第三卷（I-O）于1996年出版。另外两卷将完成词典本身，最后一卷将包含一个补充，对问卷的所有回答的完整列表，引用的所有来源的参考书目，显示区域对比和社会分布的地图部分，以及文本中使用的区域，社会和词源学标签的累积索引。DARE不仅将提供区域性美国英语的完整记录，而且还将在词典文本和原始材料中提供资源，以促进进一步的语言学研究。

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 1,002 communities across the U. S., and an equally extensive collection of written sources from the seventeenth century through the present, 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, regional labels, social and usage labels, definitions, dated quotations, and cross-references, as appropriate. A unique feature of DARE is the inclusion (within the text) of maps showing the regional distribution of words, phrases, and 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) was published in 1991, and Volume III (I-O) in 1996. Two more volumes will complete the dictionary itself, and a final volume will contain a supplement, a complete list of all responses to the Questionnaire, a bibliography of all sources quoted, a section of maps showing regional contrasts and social distributions, and a cumulative index of the regional, social, and etymological labels used in the text. DARE will not only provide a full record of regional American English, but will also furnish, both in the Dictionary text and in the raw materials, the resources to stimulate much further linguistic research.