1. List of Figures; 2. List of Tables; 3. Series Editor's Introduction; 4. Acknowledgments; 5. Introduction (by Preston, Dennis R.); 6. I: The Dutch Contribution: 'Little Arrows'; 7. Informant Classification of Dialects (by Rensink, W.G.); 8. Dialects (by Daan, Jo); 9. The Netherlands-German National Border as a Subjective Dialect Boundary (by Kremer, Ludger); 10. II: The Japanese Controversy: 'Subjective' and 'Objective'; 11. Consciousness of Dialect Boundaries (by Sibata, Takesi); 12. Consciousness of Linguistic Boundaries and Actual Linguistic Boundaries (by Nomoto, Kikuo); 13. Dialect Consciousness and Dialect Divisions: Examples in the Nagano-Gifu Boundary (by Mase, Yoshio); 14. On Dialect Consciousness: Dialect Characteristics Given by Speakers (by Mase, Yoshio); 15. The Discussion Surrounding the Subjective Boundaries of Dialects (by Grootaers, Willem); 16. On the Value of Subjective Dialect Boundaries (by Weijnen, Antonius A.); 17. Dialects and the Subjective Judgments of Speakers: Remarks on Controversial Methods (by Goeman, Ton); 18. III: Images, Perceptions and Attitudes; 19. Classification of Dialects by Image: English and Japanese (by Inoue, Fumio); 20. Subjective Dialect Division in Great Britain (by Inoue, Fumio); 21. Geographical Perceptions of Japanese Dialect Regions (by Long, Daniel); 22. Mapping Nonlinguists' Evaluations of Japanese Language Variation (by Long, Daniel); 23. The Perception of Post-Unification German Regional Speech (by Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer); 24. Variation and the Norm: Parisian Perceptions of Regional French (by Kuiper, Lawrence); 25. The Perception of Turkish Dialects (by Demirci, Mahide); 26. Regional Variation in Subjective Dialect Divisions in the United States (by Lance, Donald M.); 27. A View from the West: Perceptions of U.S. Dialects by Oregon Residents (by Hartley, Laura); 28. "Welshness" and "Englishness" as Attitudinal Dimensions of English Language Varieties in Wales (by Coupland, Nikolas); 29. Dialect Recognition (by Williams, Angie); 30. A Language Attitude Approach to the Perception of Regional Variety (by Preston, Dennis R.); 31. References; 32. Additional Readings; 33. About the Contributors and Translators; 34. Index