The multimedia age gives many disciplines the chance to observe the objects of their research from a more complex perspective. With the help of audiovisual and digital technology, the number of innovative avenues of research which could serve various academic disciplines is increasing rapidly. These innovations can also be used to great effect in dialect research. The author of this paper has been developing basic techniques of audiovisual dialectology at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the
University of Klagenfurt (Austria) with the help of film experts since 1994 when the research project Audiovisual dialectology: “Documentary records of past folk culture in dialect” was launched (www.kwfilm.at).
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