Pluricentricity and pluriareality dialects, variation, and standards / edited by Philipp Meer, University of Münster, Ryan Durgasingh, Ruhr University Bochum & University of Münster.

Other author Meer, Philipp
Other author Durgasingh, Ryan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.
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SeriesStudies in language variation, 1872-9592 ; volume 32
Contents Modeling variation: pluricentricity and pluriareality - The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity / Philipp Meer & Ryan Durgasingh -- Pluriareal languages and the case of German / Stephan Elspass -- Conceptualization of German from an Austrian perspective: empirical evidence from Austrian schools / Jutta Ransmayr -- Regiocentric use and national indexicality: enregisterment as a theoretical integration for standard German / Konstantin Niehaus -- Pluricentricity versus pluriareality? Areal patterns in the English-speaking world / Edgar W. Schneider -- The pluricentricity vs. pluriareality debate: what postcolonial diffusion and transnational language contact can tell us / Sarah Buschfeld -- A Scottish perspective on the pluricentricity/pluriareality debate / Andreas Weilinghoff -- Revising the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst: a pluricentric approach to diatopic variation in the grammar of Standard Dutch? / Arne Dhondt, Timothy Colleman & Johan De Caluwe -- Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: building the case for complementarity / Ryan Durgasingh & Philipp Meer.
Abstract "This edited collection approaches 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 heavily across dialect boundaries). With chapters focused on English, German, and Dutch, this book injects fresh perspectives on these theoretical constructs with data drawn from a variety of standards, and a range of methodological approaches to their analysis. Researchers of all levels in standard language variation will find these discussions valuable, especially regarding the volume's integrative approach to pluricentricity and pluriareality - attempting to show that these models overlap heavily rather than being in strict opposition"-- Provided by publisher.
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