Series Editor’s Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables xv
5. Series Editor’s Introduction xvii
6. Acknowledgments xix
7. Introduction xxiii
8. Part I
9. Informant Classification of Dialects 3
10. Dialects 9
11. The Netherlands-German National Border as a Subjective Dialect Boundary 31
12. Part II
13. Consciousness of Dialect Boundaries 39
14. Consciousness of Linguistic Boundaries and Actual Linguistic Boundaries 63
15. Dialect Consciousness and Dialect Divisions 71
16. On Dialect Consciousness 101
17. The Discussion Surrounding the Subjective Boundaries of Dialects 115
18. On the Value of Subjective Dialect Boundaries 131
19. Dialects and the Subjective Judgments of Speakers 135
20. Part III
21. Classification of Dialects by Image 147
22. Subjective Dialect Division in Great Britain 161
23. Geographical Perceptions of Japanese Dialect Regions 177
24. Mapping Nonlinguists’ Evaluations of Japanese Language Variation 199
25. The Perception of Post-Unification German Regional Speech 227
26. Variation and the Norm 243
27. The Perception of Turkish Dialects 263
28. Regional Variation in Subjective Dialect Divisions in the United States 283
29. A View from the West 315
30. “Welshness” and “Englishness” as Attitudinal Dimensions of English Language Varieties in Wales 333
31. Dialect Recognition 345
32. A Language Attitude Approach to the Perception of Regional Variety 359
33. References 375
34. Additional Readings 393
35. About the Contributors and Translators 403
36. Index 409