I. Theorie, Methode und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Dennis R. Preston
Perceptual Dialectology in the 21
st
Century
In the Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant says that “concepts without
percepts are empty, percepts without concepts are blind” (1781/1965).
Many studies in Perceptual Dialectology (PD) aim for folk linguistic con-
cepts, but one hopes they are not empty, for they surely involve percep-
tion in some way. Increasingly, PD studies have more directly addressed
perception, but one also hopes they are not blind to the conceptual world.
I want to offer a taxonomy related to percepts and concepts in PD, indi-
cate ways in which they interact, and evaluate long-standing and newer
work in order to suggest how we may go forward in studying ...