Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Countering the urbanist agenda in variationist sociolinguistics: dialect contact, demographic change and the rural-urban dichotomy -- Dialectal concepts of space and linguistic variation -- Dialektalität, Dialektwissen und Hyperdialektalität aus soziolinguistischer Perspektive -- A perceptual study of ethnicity and geographical location in London and Birmingham -- Der Sprachgebrauch "bei uns" - Arealbildung in Karten des Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache, objektive Grenzen und subjektive Räume -- Making sense of space - on dialect production and perception at the Finland-Sweden border -- The folk linguistic construction of local dialect areas - linguistic and extra-linguistic factors -- Mapping the perceptions of non-linguists in Northern England -- Konservative vs. innovative Dialektgebiete -- Dialectometric concepts of space: Towards a variant-based dialectometry -- Geography is overrated -- Dialektareale in Baden-Württemberg -- The measurement of Dutch dialect change in the sound components -- Appendix: Colour maps