Sociolinguistics seeks to describe language use as a social phenomenon. As such it studies
both, correlations between language use and social structure as well as the social meaning …

This article investigates whether residents of central Wisconsin perceive language variation
within their state and, if they do, what it looks like according to them. To achieve these aims …

Woods (2011: 13) asserts,“The distinction between urban and rural, between the city and the
country, is one of the oldest and most pervasive of geographical binaries”. While there may …

This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as
well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state) …

In many traditional dialectology studies, speakers' perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs about
linguistic varieties and variation were not included. In general, many dialectologists …

Despite the difficulty of delineating the rural from the urban according to economic or
demographic criteria, this distinction has powerful cultural resonances, and language plays …

Linguistic landscapes (LLs) have primarily been investigated within urban areas. This thesis
focuses on the diverse rural communities of the Gamagara Municipal area, located within …

In this paper, we present a focused perceptual dialectology study of variation in a single
metropolitan area: New Orleans, Louisiana, long overlooked by linguists. We asked …

Dialect geographers have long been concerned with identifying and mapping dialect
boundaries and describing linguistic differences within these boundaries. This research …

This research explores perceptions of linguistic variation in English in Washington state
(WA). Respondents marked on a map of WA the places where they believe people's English …