Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Volume 1
Editor
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes they have to these varieties. Some of this leads to discussion of what they believe about language in general, or “folk linguistics”. Surprising divergences from professional results can be found. For the professional, it is intriguing to find out why and whether the folk can be wrong or whether the professional has missed something.
Volume 1 of this handbook aims to provide for the field of perceptual dialectology:
- a historical survey;
- a regional survey, adding to the earlier preponderance of studies in Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States;
- a methodological survey, showing, in detail, how data have been acquired and processed;
- an interpretive survey, showing how these data have been related to both linguistic and other socio-cultural facts;
- a comprehensive bibliography.
[Not in series, HPD 1] 1999. xl, 413 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of Figures | pp. ix–xiv
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List of Tables | pp. xv–xvi
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Series Editor’s Introduction | pp. xvii–xviii
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Acknowledgments | pp. xix–xxi
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IntroductionDennis R. Preston | pp. xxiii–xl
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I: The Dutch Contribution: ‘Little Arrows’ | p. 1
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Informant Classification of DialectsW.G. Rensink and Dennis R. Preston | pp. 3–7
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DialectsJo Daan and Karen Brouwer | pp. 9–30
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The Netherlands-German National Border as a Subjective Dialect BoundaryLudger Kremer and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain | pp. 31–36
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II: The Japanese Controversy: ‘Subjective’ and ‘Objective’ | p. 37
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Consciousness of Dialect BoundariesTakesi Sibata and Daniel Long | pp. 39–62
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Consciousness of Linguistic Boundaries and Actual Linguistic BoundariesKikuo Nomoto and Daniel Long | pp. 63–69
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Dialect Consciousness and Dialect Divisions: Examples in the Nagano-Gifu BoundaryYoshio Mase and Midori Yonezawa | pp. 71–99
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On Dialect Consciousness: Dialect Characteristics Given by SpeakersYoshio Mase and Daniel Long | pp. 101–113
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The Discussion Surrounding the Subjective Boundaries of DialectsWillem Grootaers and Lawrence Kuiper | pp. 115–129
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On the Value of Subjective Dialect BoundariesAntonius A. Weijnen and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain | pp. 131–133
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Dialects and the Subjective Judgments of Speakers: Remarks on Controversial MethodsTon Goeman and Betsy E. Evans | pp. 135–144
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III: Images, Perceptions and Attitudes | p. 145
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Classification of Dialects by Image: English and JapaneseFumio Inoue | pp. 147–159
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Subjective Dialect Division in Great BritainFumio Inoue | pp. 161–176
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Geographical Perceptions of Japanese Dialect RegionsDaniel Long | pp. 177–198
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Mapping Nonlinguists’ Evaluations of Japanese Language VariationDaniel Long | pp. 199–226
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The Perception of Post-Unification German Regional SpeechJennifer Dailey-O’Cain | pp. 227–242
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Variation and the Norm: Parisian Perceptions of Regional FrenchLawrence Kuiper | pp. 243–262
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The Perception of Turkish DialectsMahide Demirci and Brian Kleiner | pp. 263–281
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Regional Variation in Subjective Dialect Divisions in the United StatesDonald M. Lance | pp. 283–314
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A View from the West: Perceptions of U.S. Dialects by Oregon ResidentsLaura Hartley | pp. 315–332
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“Welshness” and “Englishness” as Attitudinal Dimensions of English Language Varieties in WalesNikolas Coupland, Angie Williams and Peter Garrett | pp. 333–343
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Dialect RecognitionAngie Williams, Peter Garrett and Nikolas Coupland | pp. 345–358
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A Language Attitude Approach to the Perception of Regional VarietyDennis R. Preston | pp. 359–373
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Additional Readings | pp. 393–401
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About the Contributors and Translators | pp. 403–408
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Index | pp. 409–413
“Dennis Preston has done the field of empirical linguistics great service in his earlier work on perceptual dialectology, both to raise our consciousness of the phenomenon and to document some facts about the perception of English varieties. Now he has done it again in the Handbook of Percpetual Dialectology, to expose the foundation of the study of perceptual dialectology and to extend our knowledge of it around the world.”
William A Kretzschmar Jr., University of Georgia
“The Handbook is recommended to everyone interested in sociolinguistics and the social psychology of language in general, and in dialectology, language attitudes and folk-linguistic awareness in particular.”
Hans J. Ladegaard in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
“Preston's volume is successful in communicating the problems as well as the insights of perceptual dialectology. The text is highly effective in arguing and illustrating the benefits of such a perspective for a wide array of linguistic subfields and other social sciences. Each chapter is useful in itself, and when linked together, the chapters proffer a well-constructed infrastructure of information. Undoubtedly, this collection will be come a valuable resource to language scholars and social scientists alike.”
Clare J. Dannenberg in Language 77:2, 2001
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