Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations

✍ Scribed by Michael Clyne (editor)

• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Edition: 1°
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Pluricentric Languages – Introduction
Portuguese as a pluricentric language
Spanish as a pluricentric language
Is Dutch a pluricentric language?
Multiple centres of language development – the case of Tamil
Swedish as a pluricentric language
German as a pluricentric language
French as a pluricentric language
English as a pluricentric language
Korean as a pluricentric language
Is Arabic a pluricentric language?
Chinese as a pluricentric language
Amēn teł hay kay: Armenian as a pluricentric language
Serbo-Croatian as a pluricentric language
Hindi-Urdu as a pluricentric language
Malay as a pluricentric language
Pacific Pidgin Englishes
Macedonian as an Ausbau language
Epilogue
Index of Subjects
Index of Names