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Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide - Part I: Pluricentric Languages across Continents. Features and Usage

English · Hardback

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This is the first of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the "World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties" (WCPCL). It comprises papers about 20 PCLs and 14 NDVs around the world. The second volume encompasses a further 17 papers about the pluricentricity of Portuguese and Spanish. The conference was held at the University of Graz (Austria) on July 8th-11th 2015. The papers fall into five categories: (1) Theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and the description of variation; (2) Different types of pluricentricity in differing environments; (3) African pluricentric languages and non-dominant varieties; (4) The pluricentricity of Arabic and Asian languages; (5) The pluricentricity of European languages inside Europe (Austrian German, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Hungarian, Belgium Dutch, French, Greek, Swedish, Russian).

List of contents

Papers about theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and methods of description of variation in pluricentric languages; Pioneering papers about "new" pluricentric languages, "new" non-dominant varieties that have not been described before; African and Asian pluricentric languages, Berber, Basque, Kazakhstan Russian and many more.

About the author










Rudolf Muhr is head of the Austrian German Research Centre at the University of Graz and coordinator of the Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV).

Product details

Assisted by Rudolf Muhr (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 26.09.2016
 
EAN 9783631679135
ISBN 978-3-631-67913-5
No. of pages 483
Dimensions 152 mm x 247 mm x 35 mm
Weight 720 g
Illustrations 62 Abb.
Series Österreichisches Deutsch - Sprache der Gegenwart
Österreichisches Deutsch ¿ Sprache der Gegenwart
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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