Pluricentricity and Pluriareality

Dialects, Variation, and Standards

Editors
ORCID logo | Ruhr University Bochum & University of Münster
HardboundForthcoming
ISBN 9789027219152 | EUR 125.00 | USD 163.00
 
e-BookOrdering information
ISBN 9789027246233 | EUR 125.00 | USD 163.00
 
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
Table of Contents
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFB: Sociolinguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009050: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0