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The pluricentricity debate : on Austrian German and other Germanic standard varieties /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dollinger, Stefan (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Routledge focus on linguistics
Subjects:
Germanic languages > Variation.
Germanic languages > Standardization.
Germanic languages > Dialects.
Germanic philology.
German language > Austria.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of tables
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Terminological note
  • 1. The problem
  • 2. Standardizing German: Concepts and background
  • 3. The international pluricentric model
  • 4. The German "pluri-areal" model
  • 5. The case against pluricentricity
  • 6. The case against "pluri-areality"
  • 7. The lynchpin: Speaker attitudes
  • 8. Examples: Trends, not categoricity
  • 9. Safeguards in the modelling of standard varieties
  • 10. Bibliography
  • General index.