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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.
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.
This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the
variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the
twentieth century to the present. This book is not just another
history of Canadian English; it is a history of the variety's
discovery, codification, and eventual acceptance, as well as the
contribution of the linguists behind it. Written by an active
research linguist focusing on Canadian English, this book is an
archive-based biography on multiple levels. Through a combination
of new data and re-interpretations of existing studies, a new voice
is given to earlier generations of Canadian linguists who,
generally forgotten today, shaped the variety and how we think
about it. Exploring topics such as linguistic description and
codification, dictionary making, linguistic imperialism, linguistic
attitudes, language and Canadian identity, or the threat of
Americanisation, Dollinger presents a coherent, integrated and
balanced account of developments spanning over almost a century.
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