Handbook of perceptual dialectology

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Handbook of perceptual dialectology

edited by Dennis R. Preston

J. Benjamins, c1999-2002

  • v. 1 : Eur
  • v. 1 : US
  • v. 2 : Eur
  • v. 2 : US

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Includes bibliographical references (v. 1:p.[375]-392) and indexes

v. 2 : edited by Daniel Long, Dennis R. Preston

Contents of Works

  • v. 1 : The Dutch contribution : "little arrows". Informant classification of dialects / W.G. Rensink
  • Dialects / Jo Daan
  • The Netherlands-German national border as a subjective dialect boundary / Ludger Kremer
  • The Japanese controversy: "subjective" and "objective". Consciousness of dialect boundaries / Takesi Sibata
  • Consciousness of linguistic boundaries and actual linguistic boundaries / Kikuo Nomoto
  • Dialect consciousness and dialect divisions / Yoshio Mase
  • Dialect consciousness : dialect characteristics given by speakers / Yoshio Mase
  • The discussion surrounding the subjective boundaries of dialects / Willem Grootaers
  • The value of subjective dialect boundaries / Antonius A. Weijnen
  • Dialects and the subjective judgments of speakers : remarks on controversial methods / A.C.M. Goeman
  • Images, perceptions, and attitudes. Classification of dialects by image English and Japanese / Fumio Inoue
  • Subjective dialect division in Great Britain / Fumio Inoue
  • Geographical perceptions of Japanese dialect regions / Daniel Long
  • Mapping nonlinguists' evaluations of Japanese language variation / Daniel Long
  • The perception of post-unification German regional speech / Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
  • Variation and the norm : Parisian perceptions of regional French / Lawrence Kuiper
  • The perception of Turkish dilects / Mahide Demirci and Brian Kleiner
  • Regional variation in subjective dilect divisions in the United States / Donald M. Lance
  • A view from the West : perceptions of US dialects by Oregon residents / Laura Hartley
  • "Welshness" and "Englishness" as attitudinal dimensions of English language varieties in Wales / Nikolas Coupland, Angie Williams, and Peter Garrett
  • Dialect recognition / Angie Williams, Peter Garrett, and Nikolas Coupland
  • A language attitude approach to the perception of regional variety / Dennis R. Preston

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : US ISBN 9781556195341

Description

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. The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.

Table of Contents

  • 1. List of Figures
  • 2. List of Tables
  • 3. Series Editor's Introduction
  • 4. Acknowledgments
  • 5. Introduction (by Preston, Dennis R.)
  • 6. I: The Dutch Contribution: 'Little Arrows'
  • 7. Informant Classification of Dialects (by Rensink, W.G.)
  • 8. Dialects (by Daan, Jo)
  • 9. The Netherlands-German National Border as a Subjective Dialect Boundary (by Kremer, Ludger)
  • 10. II: The Japanese Controversy: 'Subjective' and 'Objective'
  • 11. Consciousness of Dialect Boundaries (by Sibata, Takesi)
  • 12. Consciousness of Linguistic Boundaries and Actual Linguistic Boundaries (by Nomoto, Kikuo)
  • 13. Dialect Consciousness and Dialect Divisions: Examples in the Nagano-Gifu Boundary (by Mase, Yoshio)
  • 14. On Dialect Consciousness: Dialect Characteristics Given by Speakers (by Mase, Yoshio)
  • 15. The Discussion Surrounding the Subjective Boundaries of Dialects (by Grootaers, Willem)
  • 16. On the Value of Subjective Dialect Boundaries (by Weijnen, Antonius A.)
  • 17. Dialects and the Subjective Judgments of Speakers: Remarks on Controversial Methods (by Goeman, Ton)
  • 18. III: Images, Perceptions and Attitudes
  • 19. Classification of Dialects by Image: English and Japanese (by Inoue, Fumio)
  • 20. Subjective Dialect Division in Great Britain (by Inoue, Fumio)
  • 21. Geographical Perceptions of Japanese Dialect Regions (by Long, Daniel)
  • 22. Mapping Nonlinguists' Evaluations of Japanese Language Variation (by Long, Daniel)
  • 23. The Perception of Post-Unification German Regional Speech (by Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer)
  • 24. Variation and the Norm: Parisian Perceptions of Regional French (by Kuiper, Lawrence)
  • 25. The Perception of Turkish Dialects (by Demirci, Mahide)
  • 26. Regional Variation in Subjective Dialect Divisions in the United States (by Lance, Donald M.)
  • 27. A View from the West: Perceptions of U.S. Dialects by Oregon Residents (by Hartley, Laura)
  • 28. "Welshness" and "Englishness" as Attitudinal Dimensions of English Language Varieties in Wales (by Coupland, Nikolas)
  • 29. Dialect Recognition (by Williams, Angie)
  • 30. A Language Attitude Approach to the Perception of Regional Variety (by Preston, Dennis R.)
  • 31. References
  • 32. Additional Readings
  • 33. About the Contributors and Translators
  • 34. Index
Volume

v. 2 : US ISBN 9781556197574

Description

The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, 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. Dialectologists, sociolinguistics, ethnographers, and applied linguists who work in areas where language variety is a concern will appreciate the findings and methods of these studies, but social scientists of every sort who want to understand the role of language in the cultural lives of ordinary people will also find much of interest here.

Table of Contents

  • 1. List of Figures
  • 2. List of Tables
  • 3. Preface (by Butters, Ronald R.)
  • 4. Acknowledgments
  • 5. Introduction
  • 6. Miami Cuban Perceptions of Varieties of Spanish (by Alfaraz, Gabriela G.)
  • 7. Aesthetic Evaluation of Dutch: Comparisons across Dialects, Accents, and Languages (by Bezooijen, Renee van)
  • 8. Perceptions of Languages in the Mandingo Region of Mali: Where Does One Language Begin and the Other End? (by Canut-Hobe, Cecile)
  • 9. Gender Differences in the Perception of Turkish Regional Dialects (by Demirci, Mahide)
  • 10. Mental Maps: Linguistic-Geographic Concepts (by Diercks, Willy)
  • 11. Attitudes of Montreal Students Towards Varieties of French (by Evans, Betsy E.)
  • 12. An Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis of Imitation (by Evans, Betsy E.)
  • 13. California Students' Perceptions of, You Know, Regions and Dialects? (by Fought, Carmen)
  • 14. Perception of Dialect Distance: Standard and Dialect in Relation to New Data on Dutch Varieties (by Goeman, Ton)
  • 15. A Dialect with 'Great Inner Strength'?: The Perception of Nativeness in the Bergen Speech Community (by Kerswill, Paul)
  • 16. Dialect Recognition and Speech Community Focusing in New and Old Towns in England: The Effects of Dialect Levelling, Demography and Social Networks (by Kerswill, Paul)
  • 17. Where is the "Most Beautiful" and the "Ugliest" Hungarian Spoken? (by Kontra, Miklos)
  • 18. Microcosmic Perceptual Dialectology and the Consequences of Extended Linguistic Awareness: A Case Study of Noirmoutier Island (France) (by Leonard, Jean Leo)
  • 19. Regional Differences in the Perception of Korean Dialects (by Long, Daniel)
  • 20. A Perceptual Dialectology of Anglophone Canada from the Perspective of Young Albertans and Ontarians (by McKinnie, Meghan)
  • 21. Madrid Perceptions of Regional Varieties in Spain (by Moreno Fernandez, Juliana)
  • 22. Attitudes Toward Midwestern American English (by Niedzielski, Nancy)
  • 23. The Perception of Urban Varieties: Preliminary Studies from the South of Italy (by Romanello, Maria Teresa)
  • 24. A Perceptual Dialect Study of French in Switzerland (by L'Eplattenier-Saugy, Caroline)
  • 25. Influence of Vowel Devoicing on Dialect Judgments by Japanese Speakers (by Yonezawa, Midori)
  • 26. About the Contributors
  • 27. Index
Volume

v. 1 : Eur ISBN 9789027221803

Description

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. The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.

Table of Contents

  • 1. List of Figures
  • 2. List of Tables
  • 3. Series Editor's Introduction
  • 4. Acknowledgments
  • 5. Introduction (by Preston, Dennis R.)
  • 6. I: The Dutch Contribution: 'Little Arrows'
  • 7. Informant Classification of Dialects (by Rensink, W.G.)
  • 8. Dialects (by Daan, Jo)
  • 9. The Netherlands-German National Border as a Subjective Dialect Boundary (by Kremer, Ludger)
  • 10. II: The Japanese Controversy: 'Subjective' and 'Objective'
  • 11. Consciousness of Dialect Boundaries (by Sibata, Takesi)
  • 12. Consciousness of Linguistic Boundaries and Actual Linguistic Boundaries (by Nomoto, Kikuo)
  • 13. Dialect Consciousness and Dialect Divisions: Examples in the Nagano-Gifu Boundary (by Mase, Yoshio)
  • 14. On Dialect Consciousness: Dialect Characteristics Given by Speakers (by Mase, Yoshio)
  • 15. The Discussion Surrounding the Subjective Boundaries of Dialects (by Grootaers, Willem)
  • 16. On the Value of Subjective Dialect Boundaries (by Weijnen, Antonius A.)
  • 17. Dialects and the Subjective Judgments of Speakers: Remarks on Controversial Methods (by Goeman, Ton)
  • 18. III: Images, Perceptions and Attitudes
  • 19. Classification of Dialects by Image: English and Japanese (by Inoue, Fumio)
  • 20. Subjective Dialect Division in Great Britain (by Inoue, Fumio)
  • 21. Geographical Perceptions of Japanese Dialect Regions (by Long, Daniel)
  • 22. Mapping Nonlinguists' Evaluations of Japanese Language Variation (by Long, Daniel)
  • 23. The Perception of Post-Unification German Regional Speech (by Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer)
  • 24. Variation and the Norm: Parisian Perceptions of Regional French (by Kuiper, Lawrence)
  • 25. The Perception of Turkish Dialects (by Demirci, Mahide)
  • 26. Regional Variation in Subjective Dialect Divisions in the United States (by Lance, Donald M.)
  • 27. A View from the West: Perceptions of U.S. Dialects by Oregon Residents (by Hartley, Laura)
  • 28. "Welshness" and "Englishness" as Attitudinal Dimensions of English Language Varieties in Wales (by Coupland, Nikolas)
  • 29. Dialect Recognition (by Williams, Angie)
  • 30. A Language Attitude Approach to the Perception of Regional Variety (by Preston, Dennis R.)
  • 31. References
  • 32. Additional Readings
  • 33. About the Contributors and Translators
  • 34. Index
Volume

v. 2 : Eur ISBN 9789027221858

Description

The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, 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. Dialectologists, sociolinguistics, ethnographers, and applied linguists who work in areas where language variety is a concern will appreciate the findings and methods of these studies, but social scientists of every sort who want to understand the role of language in the cultural lives of ordinary people will also find much of interest here.

Table of Contents

  • 1. List of Figures
  • 2. List of Tables
  • 3. Preface (by Butters, Ronald R.)
  • 4. Acknowledgments
  • 5. Introduction
  • 6. Miami Cuban Perceptions of Varieties of Spanish (by Alfaraz, Gabriela G.)
  • 7. Aesthetic Evaluation of Dutch: Comparisons across Dialects, Accents, and Languages (by Bezooijen, Renee van)
  • 8. Perceptions of Languages in the Mandingo Region of Mali: Where Does One Language Begin and the Other End? (by Canut-Hobe, Cecile)
  • 9. Gender Differences in the Perception of Turkish Regional Dialects (by Demirci, Mahide)
  • 10. Mental Maps: Linguistic-Geographic Concepts (by Diercks, Willy)
  • 11. Attitudes of Montreal Students Towards Varieties of French (by Evans, Betsy E.)
  • 12. An Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis of Imitation (by Evans, Betsy E.)
  • 13. California Students' Perceptions of, You Know, Regions and Dialects? (by Fought, Carmen)
  • 14. Perception of Dialect Distance: Standard and Dialect in Relation to New Data on Dutch Varieties (by Goeman, Ton)
  • 15. A Dialect with 'Great Inner Strength'?: The Perception of Nativeness in the Bergen Speech Community (by Kerswill, Paul)
  • 16. Dialect Recognition and Speech Community Focusing in New and Old Towns in England: The Effects of Dialect Levelling, Demography and Social Networks (by Kerswill, Paul)
  • 17. Where is the "Most Beautiful" and the "Ugliest" Hungarian Spoken? (by Kontra, Miklos)
  • 18. Microcosmic Perceptual Dialectology and the Consequences of Extended Linguistic Awareness: A Case Study of Noirmoutier Island (France) (by Leonard, Jean Leo)
  • 19. Regional Differences in the Perception of Korean Dialects (by Long, Daniel)
  • 20. A Perceptual Dialectology of Anglophone Canada from the Perspective of Young Albertans and Ontarians (by McKinnie, Meghan)
  • 21. Madrid Perceptions of Regional Varieties in Spain (by Moreno Fernandez, Juliana)
  • 22. Attitudes Toward Midwestern American English (by Niedzielski, Nancy)
  • 23. The Perception of Urban Varieties: Preliminary Studies from the South of Italy (by Romanello, Maria Teresa)
  • 24. A Perceptual Dialect Study of French in Switzerland (by L'Eplattenier-Saugy, Caroline)
  • 25. Influence of Vowel Devoicing on Dialect Judgments by Japanese Speakers (by Yonezawa, Midori)
  • 26. About the Contributors
  • 27. Index

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