Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Developing methods in Perceptual Dialectology -- Part I: Differences in the perception of rural and urban areas -- 3. Rural vs. urban: Perception and production of identity in a border city -- 4. City talk and Country talk: Perceptions of urban and rural English in Washington State -- 5. Rural "rednecks" and urban "bluebloods": The (in)compatibility of sounding gay and sounding southern -- 6. Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul -- Part II: Processes of perception and language change -- 7. The strength of stereotypes in the production and perception of the Viennese dark lateral -- 8. Access and attitudes: A study of adolescents' metalinguistic awareness -- 9. The accents of Marseille: Perceptions and linguistic change -- Part III: The relationship between perception and "reality" -- 10. Perceptual prominence of city-based dialect areas in Great Britain -- 11. Dialect perception and identification in Nottingham -- 12. Real and perceived variation in Dublin English -- 13. Perceptual Dialectology, speech samples, and the concept of salience: Initial findings from the DFG-project "Lay Linguists' perspective on German regional varieties: Reconstructing lay linguistic conceptualizations of German in a perceptual dialectology approach" -- References -- Index