Mapping, synthesis and visualization of Czech dialects

0547227 - ÚJČ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Voženílek, V. - Ireinová, Martina - Vondráková, A. - Koníček, J.
Mapping, synthesis and visualization of Czech dialects.
London: Taylor & Francis, 2021. ISSN 2372-9333. E-ISSN 2372-9341. International Journal of Cartography. Roč. 8, č. 1 (2022), s. 143-163. ISSN 2372-9333. E-ISSN 2372-9341
R&D Projects: GA MK(CZ) DG20P02OVV029
Research Infrastructure: LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ - 90101
Keywords : language mapping * dialect maps * cartographic synthesis * systematic cartography * linguistic atlas
OECD category: Linguistics
Impact factor: 0.5, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23729333.2021.1978039

Dialects became a traditional research subject of linguists who collect and analyse data from a linguistic perspective and a spatial perspective. Detailed research on the distribution of dialects and their specifics is an important part of preserving every nation’s cultural heritage. With the gradual disappearance of dialects in society, this topic is very relevant. The presented paper briefly describes the history of dialect research and the most important outcome in recent years, the Czech Linguistic Atlas (CLA). CLA presents the data only in a very simple form from a cartographic point of view, so a new approach has been applied. A new atlas was created from this data, focusing on a specific area of dialectology – vowels shortening. This new atlas’ internal structure corresponds to the cartographic atlas theory as a system and contains both analytical and synthetic maps. Synthetic maps show areas with similar (and unique in the case of regionalisation) combinations of evaluated attributes. The concept of map synthesis is described, and further research questions are designed.
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