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Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide - New Pluricentric Languages - Old Problems

English · Hardback

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This book comprises 30 selected papers that were presented at the 5th World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties (WCPCL) held at the University of Mainz (Germany). The conference was organized by the Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV). The authors come from 15 countries and deal with 14 pluricentric languages and 31 (non-dominant) varieties around the world. The number of known PLCLs has again been extended. There are now 43 PLCLs in all. Apart from a large number of papers on Spanish, French and Portuguese, «new» and little researched PLCLs are also presented in the contributions: Albanian, Hungarian, Malay, Persian, Somali and Romanian.

List of contents

Pluricentric languages - Non-dominant varieties - Theory of pluricentric languages - «New» and little researched pluricentric languages - Identity and pluricentrism

About the author










Rudolf Muhr is Sociolinguist, retired Professor of Linguistics, Founder and Head of the Austrian German Research Centre at the University of Graz and Initiator and Coordinator of the Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV).
Benjamin Meisnitzer is Full Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at the University of Leipzig. He was Assistant Professor of Romance Linguistics at Johannes-Gutenberg University/Mainz and Research Assistant at Ludwig-Maximilians University/Munich. He is member of the Steering Committee of the WGNDV, Vice President of the German Association of Catalanists and Vice President of the German Association of Lusitanists.

Product details

Assisted by Benjamin Meisnitzer (Editor), Rudolf Muhr (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 04.12.2018
 
EAN 9783631756232
ISBN 978-3-631-75623-2
No. of pages 490
Dimensions 148 mm x 36 mm x 210 mm
Weight 700 g
Illustrations 49 Abb.
Series Österreichisches Deutsch - Sprache der Gegenwart
Österreichisches Deutsch ¿ Sprache der Gegenwart
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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