Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives on Non-Linguists’ Knowledge of the Dialect Landscape (Language and Social Life [LSL] Book 5)

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’. Contents 5 List of illustrations 8 List of tables 11 Preface 13 Acknowledgements 17 Notes on contributors 18 Chapter 1. Introduction 23 Chapter 2. Developing methods in Perceptual Dialectology 31 Part I: Differences in the perception of rural and urban areas 47 Chapter 3. Rural vs. urban: Perception and production of identity in a border city 49 Chapter 4. City talk and Country talk: Perceptions of urban and rural English in Washington State 77 Chapter 5. Rural “rednecks” and urban “bluebloods”: The (in)compatibility of sounding gay and sounding southern 95 Chapter 6. Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul 119 Part II: Processes of perception and language change 139 Chapter 7. The strength of stereotypes in the production and perception of the Viennese dark lateral 141 Chapter 8. Access and attitudes: A study of adolescents’ metalinguistic awareness 159 Chapter 9. The accents of Marseille: Perceptions and linguistic change 181 Part III: The relationship between perception and “reality” 205 Chapter 10. Perceptual prominence of city-based dialect areas in Great Britain 207 Chapter 11. Dialect perception and identification in Nottingham 231 Chapter 12. Real and perceived variation in Dublin English 255 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” 279 References 297 Index 321 While connections between language and place have been central to traditional dialectology, the perceptions non-linguists have about such connections have often been ignored. In this book the non-linguist's view is seen as central to understanding linguistic variation in and of cities. This collection of state-of-the-art Perceptual Dialectology research assesses how the urban setting influences those perceptions