Pluricentric Languages: New Perspectives in Theory and Description

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.

• 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.