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 took place from August 26-28 2021. The volume contains fourteen contributions. The conference was organised by the “Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages” (WGNDV), this time hosted by the Austrian German Research Centre in Graz. Due to the pandemic, the conference was held online via ZOOM much to the satisfaction of all participants. The conference had three main topics: (1) Pluricentric languages in the Americas; (2) The localisation of global audiovisual and print media in pluricentric language ar-eas. (3) Pluricentric languages worldwide. The papers of this volume refer to topic (1) while the papers of theme (3) are published in volume (2).
All articles of this volume deal with pluricentric languages that exist in the Americas. It is the first volume of this kind that has been ever published on this topic. There are papers dealing with the indigenous language Quechua and the Guarani-Tupi language family. Spanish and Portuguese as well as Dutch and Arcadian French in Canada are also dealt with.
Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide: New pluricentric languages-old problems
This volume comprises 30 selected papers that were presented at the “5th World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties (WCPCL) held at the University of Mainz (Germany) in 2017. The authors come from 15 countries and deal with 14 pluricentric languages and 31 (non-dominant) varieties around the world. The number of known PLCLs has again been extended. There are now 43 PLCLs in all. Apart from a large number of papers on Spanish, French and Portuguese, “new” and little researched PLCLs are also presented in the volume: Albanian, Hungarian, Malay, Persian, Somali and Romanian.