Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
List of tables xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Notes on contributors xviii
Chapter 1 Introduction Dennis R. Preston 1
Chapter 2 Developing methods in Perceptual Dialectology Chris Montgomery Jennifer Cramer 9
Part I Differences in the perception of rural and urban areas
Chapter 3 Rural vs. urban: Perception and production of identity In a border city Jennifer Cramer 27
Chapter 4 City talk and Country talk: Perceptions of urban and rural English in Washington State Betsy E. Evans 55
Chapter 5 Rural "rednecks" and urban "bluebloods": The (in)compatibility of sounding gay and sounding southern Stephen L. Mann 73
Chapter 6 Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul Lisa Jeon Patricia Cukor-Avila 97
Part II Processes of perception and language change
Chapter 7 The strength of stereotypes in the production and perception of the Viennese dark lateral Sylvia Moosmüller 119
Chapter 8 Access and attitudes: A study of adolescents' metalinguistic awareness Christoph Hare Svenstrup 137
Chapter 9 The accents of Marseille: Perceptions and linguistic change Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus 159
Part III The relationship between perception and "reality"
Chapter 10 Perceptual prominence of city-based dialect areas in Great Britain Chris Montgomery 185
Chapter 11 Dialect perception and identification in Nottingham Natalie Braber 209
Chapter 12 Real and perceived variation in Dublin English John Lonergan 233
Chapter 13 Perceptual Dialectology, speech samples, and the concept of salience: Initial findings from the DFG-project "Lay Linguists' perspective on German regional varieties: Reconstructing lay linguistic conceptualizations of German in a perceptual dialectology approach" Nicole Palliwoda Saskia Schröder 257
References 275
Index 299
