This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clyne s seminal volume -Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries- published in 1992. The main focus of this volume is the exploration of linguistic standards in non-dominant varieties and the discovery of the ways in which different language communities of non-dominant varieties reconcile their wish to express their national, social and personal identity via language with their desire to adhere to a common language. Another central focus is the way in which the norms of languages, and in particular those of...