Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different NationsMichael Clyne 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. |
Contents
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Is Dutch a pluricentric language? | 71 |
Multiple centres of language development the case of Tamil | 93 |
Swedish as a pluricentric language | 101 |
German as a pluricentric language | 117 |
French as a pluricentric language | 149 |
Chinese as a pluricentric language | 305 |
Armenian as a pluricentric language | 325 |
SerboCroatian as a pluricentric language | 347 |
HindiUrdu as a pluricentric language | 381 |
Malay as a pluricentric language | 401 |
Pacific Pidgin Englishes | 421 |
Macedonian as an Ausbau language | 437 |
Epilogue | 455 |
English as a pluricentric language | 179 |
Korean as a pluricentric language | 239 |
Is Arabic a pluricentric language? | 261 |
Common terms and phrases
academies accepted African American English Armenian Australian English Austrian bahasa bahasa Indonesia Belgium Bislama Brazil Brazilian Portuguese Brunei Bulgarian central centre Chinese codification communication Croatian Croatian variant cultural dialects diasystem dictionaries divergence Dutch Eastern Armenian educated European Portuguese example factors fangyan Finland Finland-Swedish Flemish français French grammar guoyu Hindi Hindi and Urdu Hindi-Urdu Indian Indonesia influence Kachru Korean language policies lexical Língua Portuguesa linguistic Lisboa literary Macedonian Malay Malaysia Mandarin Muslims national language national varieties native norms official language orthography phonological pidgins Pijin pluricentric language political Portugal prestige pronunciation putonghua regional Republic role Serbian Serbian variant Singapore Slavonic social sociolect sociolinguistic Solomon Pijin South Spanish speakers speaking speech spoken varieties Standard German standard language status Surinamese Sweden Swedish Swiss Tamil Tok Pisin University urban Urdu usage verb vocabulary vowel Western words