The questionnaire has a long tradition of being employed as an instrument of attitude
elicitation, and early on in the development of language attitudes as a field of study, this …

This article explores the relationship between salience, stereotypes, and cooccurring
language variables in the social perception of language. Following previous work, we argue …

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 …

Politische Grenzen haben nachweislich sowohl auf den Sprachgebrauch als auch auf die
Sprachwahrnehmung einen großen Einfluss. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert für den die …

Hinsichtlich der vertikalen Dimension lassen sich unterhalb der nationalen Ora-
lisierungsnorm der Standardsprache in Deutschland (vgl. Schmidt 2005a) für das …

This paper explores the use and position of Scouse in middle-class secondary schools.
Despite a wide circulation of a 'variation ideology'(Cameron, 1995) that embraces and …

This chapter uses data gathered in two perceptual dialectology studies in the North of
England to investigate the perception of the North-South divide. The importance of this …

This study deals with the conceptualization of language distribution in space. Based on an
examination of two generations, parallels and differences in the localization of active …

Abstract Liverpool English, or “Scouse”, is reportedly spreading into surrounding areas
including the Wirral. Interviews with adolescent female speakers on the Wirral revealed that …

In this paper I investigate Yorkshire speakers' perceptions of Barnsley dialect. Interviews
with speakers from different parts of Yorkshire revealed that the most frequently defined …