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Abstract The Study aims at providing a professional briefing of dialectology by the means of presenting in chapter one, the most common definitions of “dialect”, discussing the factors that lead to the emergence of dialects, the application of dialectology, and the most remarkable works carried out in the field by studying the major dialectal works in three major areas: Europe – The United States of America and The Arab World. Chapter two offers a brief understanding to the meaning of dialectology, the importance of the term isogloss, and ends by discussing the major concepts in dialectology from different points of view. Chapter three is concerned with studying the methodology utilized in the dialectal research studies, then providing three different typed of dialectal surveys such as traditional, sociolinguistic, and perceptual dialectology. Chapter four is dedicated to studying the theories of dialectology, discussing the linguistic theories in a manner that shows their role in the emergence of the different school of dialectology.Chapter five is dedicated to presenting the corpora as one of the methods of dialectology, by providing the characteristics that qualifies them to become one of the methods of dialectology, then the presentation swifts to describing the stages of building written corpora, then showing some major types of corpora, and ends by mentioning the limitation of corpora utilization. Finally, while most of the dialectal researches nowadays tend to get interrupted due to the lack of financing or miss consideration of one of the factors that have an impact on the success of the dialectal research. Chapter six, in conclusion tends to offer an introduction to a projectized way of planning any dialectal study in a manner that links the scientific aim of any dialectal research to the real-life dialectal project constraints, by providing a general point of view that is built on the presented study, in a manner that secures an appropriate selection of methods according to each research’s unique nature rather than recommending specific methods in general. |