European Pluricentric Languages in Contact and Conflict

This volume comprises 17 papers that are dealing with European pluricentric languages where there are some issues of contact and conflict. An overview about all European languages and of those that are pluricentric is also provided. Central topics are human rights for non-dominant varieties, and conflicts in pluricentric languages on the Iberian peninsula and on the British Isles. Several papers also deal with languages from a different point of view, with languages where the status of pluricentricity is disputed (Albanian, Post-Yougoslav-languages). For the first time the pluricentricity of Finno-Ugric languages is dealt with alongside papers about the pluricentricity of Russian. This is the seventh volume that is published by the "International Working Group on non-dominant varieties of pluricentric languages".

List of contents

Contact and conflict in European pluricentric languages - Human rights for pluricentric languages - Disputes about the status of Post-Yougoslav-languages - Reflections on the pluricentricty of Finno-Ugric languages - Languages and identity conflicts on the Iberian Peninsula and on the British Isles

About the author

Rudolf Muhr is head of the Austrian German Research Centre in Graz and the coordinator of the WGNDV.
Josep Àngel Mas Castells is professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
Jack Rueter is senior researcher at the department of digital humanities of the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Product details

• Assisted by: Josep Angel Mas Castells (Editor), Rudolf Muhr (Editor), Jack Rueter (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783631802977
• ISBN: 978-3-631-80297-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 27 mm x 211 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Illustrations: 13 Abb.
• Series: Österreichisches Deutsch - Sprache der Gegenwart; Österreichisches Deutsch ¿ Sprache der Gegenwart
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures