This article presents a new method for processing data gathered using the “draw-a-map”
task in perceptual dialectology (PD) studies. Such tasks produce large numbers of maps …

This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit
language attitudes. It details the findings of a large-scale study, incorporating cutting-edge …

This chapter introduces the topic of Perceptual Dialectology (PD), an area of sociolinguistics
concerned with how nonlinguists understand dialectal variation. The chapter provides a brief …

Place has been central to sociolinguistic research from the beginning. How speakers
conceptualize and orient to place can influence linguistic productions. Additionally, places …

Perceptual dialectology is the study of the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that nonlinguists
have about their dialect landscapes. The field foregrounds these perceptions which have …

This article describes the influence of various basemaps in Perceptual Dialectology, on the
national and state levels. The 180 perceptual maps of the United States and Tennessee …

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the
role language plays in identifying, recognizing, and understanding those around them. This …

This article presents PDMapping, a new tool developed to assist the collecting and
processing of data in research projects in Perceptual Dialectology. It allows information to be …

RES: Because if you're gonna say, okay you're about a tourism destination, you want
everything about your island to be unique so that people get attracted to it, erm, so in a …

Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um die geringfügig überarbeitete Version
meiner Dissertation, die im Februar 2013 vom Promotionsausschuss der Gemeinsamen …