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The Pluricentricity Debate - On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties (Paperback)
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The Pluricentricity Debate - On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Focus on Linguistics
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This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of
German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea
implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly allows
for national standard varieties, and the notion of
"pluri-areality," which seeks to challenge the former. Looking at
the debate from three angles - methodological, theoretical, and
epistemological - the volume draws on data from German and English,
with additional perspectives from Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish,
Danish and Norwegian, to establish if and to what degree
"pluri-areality" and pluricentricity model various sociolinguistic
situations adequately. Dollinger argues that "pluri-areality" is
synonymous with "geographical variation" and, as such, no match for
pluricentricity. Instead, "pluri-areality" presupposes an
atheoretical, supposedly "neutral", data-driven linguistics that
violates basic science-theoretical principles. Three fail-safes are
suggested - the uniformitarian hypothesis, Popper's theory of
falsification and speaker attitudes - to avoid philological
incompatibilities and terminological clutter. This book is of
particular interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, World
Englishes, Germanic languages and linguists more generally.
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