Pluricentricity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pluricentricity write by Augusto Soares da Silva. This book was released on 2013-11-27. Pluricentricity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon; it can be understood as either differing national standards or differing local norms. The nine studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. They include research undertaken in both the Cognitive Linguistic and socolinguistic tradition, with particular emphasis upon the emerging framework of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Six languages, all more or less pluricentric, are analyzed: four Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch and Swedish) and two Romance languages (Portuguese and French). The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and perception and attitudes in relation to these pluricentric languages. It makes use of advanced empirical methods able to account for the complex interplay between conceptual and social aspects of pluricentric variation and other forms of language-internal variation.
Pluricentric Languages
Pluricentric Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pluricentric Languages write by Michael G. Clyne. This book was released on 1992. Pluricentric Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches 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 linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
The Pluricentricity Debate
The Pluricentricity Debate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pluricentricity Debate write by Stefan Dollinger. This book was released on 2019-05-23. The Pluricentricity Debate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly allows for national standard varieties, and the notion of "pluri-areality," which seeks to challenge the former. Looking at the debate from three angles – methodological, theoretical, and epistemological – the volume draws on data from German and English, with additional perspectives from Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, to establish if and to what degree "pluri-areality" and pluricentricity model various sociolinguistic situations adequately. Dollinger argues that "pluri-areality" is synonymous with "geographical variation" and, as such, no match for pluricentricity. Instead, "pluri-areality" presupposes an atheoretical, supposedly "neutral", data-driven linguistics that violates basic science-theoretical principles. Three fail-safes are suggested – the uniformitarian hypothesis, Popper’s theory of falsification and speaker attitudes – to avoid philological incompatibilities and terminological clutter. This book is of particular interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Germanic languages and linguists more generally.
World Englishes
World Englishes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Englishes write by Kingsley Bolton. This book was released on 2006. World Englishes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Empirical Study of the Pluricentricity of German
An Empirical Study of the Pluricentricity of German - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Empirical Study of the Pluricentricity of German write by James W. Pfrehm. This book was released on 2007. An Empirical Study of the Pluricentricity of German available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
