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Publication details [#31082]

Long, Daniel and D. Preston. 2002. Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology. Volume 2. (Varieties of English Around the World). John Benjamins. 412 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

This book expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new approaches are studies of the salience of specific linguistic features in variety identification and assessment. As in Volume I, the reader will find in these chapters everything from the statistical treatment of the ratings of dialect attributes to studies of the actual discourses of nonlinguists discussing language variety.