The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the
well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community.
Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon;
it can be understood as either differing national standards or
differing local norms. The nine studies collected in this volume
explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of
variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific
emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. They
include research undertaken in both the Cognitive Linguistic and
socolinguistic tradition, with particular emphasis upon the
emerging framework of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Six languages,
all more or less pluricentric, are analyzed: four Germanic
languages (English, German, Dutch and Swedish) and two Romance
languages (Portuguese and French). The volume describes patterns of
phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and perception and
attitudes in relation to these pluricentric languages. It makes use
of advanced empirical methods able to account for the complex
interplay between conceptual and social aspects of pluricentric
variation and other forms of language-internal variation.
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