Pluricentricity and Pluriareality
Dialects, Variation, and Standards
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This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more powerful national standard varieties affecting the less powerful), and pluriareality (the idea that standard varieties are not limited by national borders and, instead, overlap significantly across dialect boundaries). With chapters focused on English, German, and Dutch, this book offers fresh perspectives on these theoretical constructs, drawing on data from a variety of standards, and a range of methodological approaches to their analysis. Researchers at all levels interested in standard language variation will find these discussions valuable, especially due to the volume’s integrative approach to pluricentricity and pluriareality, which seeks to demonstrate that these models heavily overlap rather than being in strict opposition.
[Studies in Language Variation, 32] Expected January 2025. viii, 196 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Chapter 1. Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality — The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarityPhilipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh | pp. 1–14
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Chapter 2. Pluriareal languages and the case of GermanStephan Elspaß | pp. 15–44
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Chapter 3. Conceptualization of German from an Austrian perspective: Empirical evidence from Austrian schoolsJutta Ransmayr | pp. 45–65
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Chapter 4. Regiocentric use and national indexicality: Enregisterment as a theoretical integration for standard GermanKonstantin Niehaus | pp. 66–89
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Chapter 5. Pluricentricity versus pluriareality? Areal patterns in the English-speaking worldEdgar W. Schneider | pp. 90–117
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Chapter 6. The pluricentricity vs. pluriareality debate: What postcolonial diffusion and transnational language contact can tell usSarah Buschfeld | pp. 118–140
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Chapter 7. A Scottish perspective on the pluricentricity/pluriareality debateAndreas Weilinghoff | pp. 141–164
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Chapter 8. Revising the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst: A pluricentric approach to diatopic variation in the grammar of Standard Dutch?Arne Dhondt, Timothy Colleman and Johan De Caluwe | pp. 165–186
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Chapter 9. Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarityRyan Durgasingh and Philipp Meer | pp. 187–195
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Index | p. 197
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009050: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics