The Dublin Language Garden Perceptual Dialectology of Irish English Collection

Recommended citation for this dataset:
Garnett, Vicky, & Lucek, Stephen. (2020). The Dublin Language Garden Perceptual Dialectology of Irish English Collection (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4247829

About this Dataset
The field of Perceptual Dialectology is an area of sociolinguistic study that investigates how non-linguists view different varieties of language.  It often includes hand-drawn map exercises in which participants indicate where they believe various varieties are spoken, and their attitudes towards them. 

In 2015, as part of a public linguistics outreach event (the Dublin Language Garden) held at Trinity College Dublin, the authors created an activity for members of the public and collected hand-drawn maps from them that gave responses to the following tasks:

a. Indicate where you come from on the map (using a red dot sticker)
b. Draw where you think the Dublin dialect occurs
c. Draw the boundaries of any other dialects you believe occur in Ireland
d. Tell us what you think are the features of those dialects
e. Tell us what you think are the characteristics of the people who speak those dialects.

Participants of all ages were encouraged to take part, but only data from those over 18 were retained after the event and used in this data collection.  Participants were all given information on how the data was to be anonymised, processed and published on a clearly displayed poster to read before they were given a map to complete the 5 tasks (listed above).  No additional information about the participants, aside from that acquired through Task a, was collected.

File List:

_READ_ME - Dublin Language Garden Perceptual Dialectology of Irish English data.txt
Contains a detailed description of this dataset.

DLG_PDIE_KML_data_by_location.zip
This zipped folder contains the .kml data of multiple hand-drawn maps organised into folders by their location

DLG_PDIE_KML_data_by_part.zip
This zipped folder contains the .kml data of multiple hand-drawn maps organised into folders according to the participants.

These folders have been organised in this way in order to make discoverability easier between the data.  Users may wish to analyse the data only by the locations of the varieties identified by the participants.  Other users may only be interested in the data given by specific participants, and therefore the folder that organises the data in this way may be of better use to them.  Both folders, however, contain the same data, it is simply how they are organised.

Garnett and Lucek DLG_PD_IE Qualitative Data (Nov 2020).xlsx
Spreadsheet featuring tabulated qualitative data taken from all maps

Sample Hand-drawn Maps.zip
Folder containing 2 sample hand-drawn maps from the participants to help contextualise the data presented here.

Any questions?
Any enquiries regarding this dataset should be directed to either Vicky Garnett ([e-mail]) or Stephen Lucek ([e-mail]).