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Le lingue pluricentriche: il caso dell’italiano

Fundamentals of a general theory of pluricentric languages

This book is the result of my long-standing involvement with pluricentric languages, which for me personally began in 1980. Since...

Wort in der Zeit – Zeit im Wort – 25 Jahre Österreichisches Wort des Jahres. Ein Bericht

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein Bericht über die Ergebnisse der Wahl des Österreichischen Worts des Jahres, die 1999 zum ersten...

Pluricentric Languages in Africa and in Other Regions of the World

This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties. It comprises papers...

A língua Portuguesa falada em Timor-Leste: Um estudo ecolinguístico

Portuguese is the official language of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, alongside Tetun Prasa (an Austronesian language and local...

A History of Language-learning among the Muslims of South Asia

This is the first book-length study of the history of language teaching and learning among South Asia Muslims. It traces...

Wie man mit fehlerhaften Korpusdaten Sprachpolitik macht: Der Fall der Variantengrammatik des Deutschen

Dieses Buch präsentiert die Analysen von 200/969 Einträgen der Variantengrammatik (VARGR) des Deutschen anhand eines Vergleichskorpus von 19 Milliarden Wörtern....

Pluricentricity in foreign language teaching: The case of English and German in the Hungarian educational system

This book investigates the role of the pluricentricity of English and German in the Hungarian education system. The basis of...

„One size fits all“? Linguistic standards in the media of pluricentric language areas

Sociolinguists are studying language use in all kinds of spoken, written, and audiovisual media. Similarly, language attitude towards language use,...

Language and Politics in Pakistan

Pakistan has had many conflicts involving language. Relying on primary sources, Rahman has written a scholarly and objective account of...

Pakistani English – The Linguistic Description of a Non-Native Variety of English

This study began life as an M.Litt thesis at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1989. As I broke my...

Pluricentric Languages in the Americas

This is the first of two volumes that present part of the outcome 9th World Conference on Pluricentric Languages that...

Pluricentric languages in different theoretical and educational contexts

This is the second of two volumes that presents part of the outcome 9th World Conference on Pluricentric Languages that...

From Hindi to Urdu. A Social and Political History

This book is the first of its kind on the socio-political history of Urdu. It analyses the historiography of the...

Pluricentric Theory beyond Dominance and Non-dominance: A Critical View

The present volume contains ten contributions. Six of them were presented in Stockholm at the workshop “The Theory and Description...