Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives on Non-Linguists' Knowledge of the Dialect Landscape

by Jennifer Cramer (Editor), Chris Montgomery (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection presents papers relating to the state of the art in Perceptual Dialectology research. The authors take an international view of the field of Perceptual Dialectology, broadly defined, to assess the similarities and contrasts in non-linguists’ perceptions of the dialect landscape. The volume is global in focus, and chapters discuss data gathered in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, and South Korea. The common methods used by many of the contributors means that readers will be able to draw comparisons from the breadth of the volume.

The primary focus of this volume is geared toward an examination of dialect perceptions in and of cities, with an additional goal of presenting empirical, theoretical, and methodological advancements in Perceptual Dialectology. Authors’ contributions to the collection examine how the urban setting influences perceptions of linguistic variation and, in the course of examining the connections between place and perceptions, explore several interrelated themes of linguistic variation, including the differences in the perception of rural and urban areas, processes of perception and language change, and the relationship between perception and ‘reality’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614514770
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	02/22/2016
Series:	Language and Social Life [LSL] , #5
Pages:	321
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Cramer, University of Kentucky, USA; Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield, UK.

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