Perceptual Dialectology in Central Wisconsin

Perceptual Dialectology in Central Wisconsin

Author: Sarah Braun

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-09

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3662634465

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This book investigates the complex interplay of language discourse and variation in Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA. The combination of different research methods such as ethnographic observations, sociolinguistic interviews, and methods used in perceptual dialectology allows the meaning of language variation in Marathon County to be studied on different levels, i.e. how speakers position themselves within their speech community overtly through discourse and, more subtly, through their linguistic practices. Results show that Wisconsin English is becoming increasingly enregistered, a finding which none of the individual approaches to studying language discourse and variation in Marathon County reveals on their own. It is shown that a “Nortwoods persona” is beginning to evolve which links place, identity, and language use.


Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology

Author: Dennis R. Preston

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999-10-15

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9027298416

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Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes they have to these varieties. Some of this leads to discussion of what they believe about language in general, or “folk linguistics”. Surprising divergences from professional results can be found. For the professional, it is intriguing to find out why and whether the folk can be wrong or whether the professional has missed something.Volume 1 of this handbook aims to provide for the field of perceptual dialectology: • a historical survey; • a regional survey, adding to the earlier preponderance of studies in Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States; • a methodological survey, showing, in detail, how data have been acquired and processed; • an interpretive survey, showing how these data have been related to both linguistic and other socio-cultural facts; • a comprehensive bibliography. The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.


Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology

Author: Daniel Long

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-12-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9027296057

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The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new approaches are studies of the salience of specific linguistic features in variety identification and assessment. As in Volume I, the reader will find in these chapters everything from the statistical treatment of the ratings of dialect attributes to studies of the actual discourses of nonlinguists discussing language variety. Dialectologists, sociolinguistics, ethnographers, and applied linguists who work in areas where language variety is a concern will appreciate the findings and methods of these studies, but social scientists of every sort who want to understand the role of language in the cultural lives of ordinary people will also find much of interest here.


Language and a Sense of Place

Language and a Sense of Place

Author: Chris Montgomery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1107098718

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This book explores twenty-first century approaches to place by bringing together a range of language variation and change research.


Language Regard

Language Regard

Author: Betsy E. Evans

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1107162807

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The first book of its kind to provide historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard.


Dialectology as Dialectic

Dialectology as Dialectic

Author: Jamin R. Pelkey

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 3110245841

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Revision of author's (doctoral) thesis--LaTrobe University, Austraila, 2008.


Listening to the Past

Listening to the Past

Author: Raymond Hickey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 1107051576

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The first edited volume to document and analyse early audio recordings of the English language.