Pluricentric Languages: New Perspectives in Theory and Description

ISBN-13: 9783631664339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 318 str.

Rudolf Muhr;Dawn Marley;Anu Bissoonauth

Opis

This volume presents a selection of papers from the "3rd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages" that was held in 2014 at the University of Surrey, Guildford (UK). The papers in section one deal with the theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and methods of description of the variations in pluricentric languages. Section two contains a number of papers about "new" pluricentric languages and "new" non-dominant varieties that have not been described before. Section three showcases pluricentric languages that are used alongside indigenous languages and section four deals with the pluricentricity of special languages.

Spis treści

Contents: Rudolf Muhr: Manufacturing linguistic dominance in pluricentric languages and beyond - Gerhard Leitner: The transformation of language situations: the habitat model - Danica Salazar: The vocabulary of non-dominant varieties of English in the Oxford English Dictionary - Carla Amorós Negre: The determination of standard variants: Language performance in pluricentric Spanish - Amália Mendes/Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte/Maria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento/Luísa Pereira/Antónia Estrela: Pronominal constructions and subject indetermination in varieties of Portuguese - A global view on norms - Sofie Henricson/Camilla Wide/Jenny Nilsson/Marie Nelson/Catrin Norrby/Jan Lindström: You and I in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish supervision meetings - Aditi Gosh: Bengali as a pluricentric language - Salvatore Del Gaudio/Olga Ivanova: A variety in formation? Morphosyntactic variation in Ukraine-Russian speech and press - Susana Afonso/Francesco Goglia: Portuguese in East Timor as a non-dominant variety in the making - Juan A. Thomas: In search of a standard: Spanish in a small, upstate NY community - Natividad Hernández Muñoz: The Spanish of La Mancha: A New Non-dominant Linguistic Identity? Perspectives of Young Speakers - Karoline Kühl: South Schleswig Danish: Caught between privileges and disregard - Máté Huber/Timea Molnár: Attitudes of speakers of non-dominant varieties of Hungarian towards their own variety and the dominant one - Anu Bissoonauth: Pluricentricity and sociolinguistic relationships between French, English and indigenous Languages in New Caledonia - Kelen Ernesta Fonyuy: Functional dominance in non-dominant varieties of Cameroon English Pronunciation - Tanja Wissik: The codification situation of terminological variation within pluricentric languages.

O autorze

Rudolf Muhr is Head of the Austrian German Research Centre at the University of Graz and Head of the Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV).
Dawn Marley is Director of the Learning and Teaching School of English and Languages at the University of Surrey and a senior member of the WGNDV.