Sociolinguistic profiles of the informants of Catalan dialectal atlases

This paper analyses the sociolinguistic profile of the informants used in the linguistic surveys for the elaboration of the three main Catalan dialectal atlases: the Altas linguistic de Catalunya (ALC), the Atlas lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI) and the Atles lingüístic del domini català (ALDC). Taking into account that traditional atlases took NORMs (non-mobile older rural males) as favourite informants, it is analysed if these parameters were followed in each atlas when the informants for the linguistic surveys were chosen. After data analysis and discussion, it is shown that NORM pattern was followed most of the times in the ALDC and, partially, in the ALPI, but was not followed in the ALC, that works poorly in a methodological level.