Introduction

1. 1Language Regard: What, Why, How, Whither?

   Dennis R. Preston

1. 2A Variationist Approach to Studies of Language Regard

   Patricia Cukor-Avila

2. 3The Emic and the Etic in Perceptual Dialectology

   Jennifer Cramer

3. 4Variation in Language Regard: Sociolinguistic Receptivity and Acceptability of Linguistic Features

   Erica J. Benson and Megan L. Risdal

4. 5Social Meanings of the North–South Divide in the Netherlands and Their Linkage to Standard Dutch and Various Dialects

   Leonie Cornips

5. 6Language Subordination on a National Scale: Examining the Linguistic Discrimination of Hungarians by Hungarians

   Miklós Kontra

6. 7Regional Identity and Listener Perception

   Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall

1. 8Language Regard and Migration: Cuban Immigrants in the United States

   Gabriela Alfaraz

2. 9Perceptions of Black American Sign Language

   Robert Bayley, Joseph C. Hill, Ceil Lucas, and Carolyn McCaskill

3. 10Ethnolinguistic Assertions Regarding People Who Allegedly “Talk White,” or “Talk Black”

   John Baugh

4. 11Language Regard in Liminal Hmong American Speech Communities

   James N. Stanford, Rika Ito, and Faith Nibbs

5. 12Language Regard and Sociolinguistic Competence of Non-native Speakers

   Alexei Prikhodkine

1. 13Cracking the Code: Wedgies and Lexical Respectability

   Jack Chambers

2. 14Language Regard and Cultural Practice: Variation, Evaluation, and Change in the German Regional Languages

   Christoph Purschke

3. 15Tabula Rasa New-Dialect Formation: On the Occasional Irrelevance of Language Regard

   Peter Trudgill

4. 16Sharedness and Variability in Language Regard among Young Danes: Focus on Gender

   Tore Kristiansen