Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages. Getting the Picture In Memory of Michael Clyne- in Collaboration with Catrin Norrby, Leo Kretzenbacher, Carla Amorós |
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| Editor:
| Muhr, Rudolf |
| Series title: | Oesterreichisches Deutsch - Sprache der Gegenwart Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-631-62024-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $127.70 |
Book Description:
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This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1stInternational Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages in Graz (Austria) in July 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne - eminent linguist, scholar, language enthusiast and advocate of multilingualism who died in October 2010. The volume pays homage to his important contributions in many fields of linguistics and in the theory of pluricentric languages. The conference in Graz was the first...
More DescriptionThis volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1stInternational Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages in Graz (Austria) in July 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne - eminent linguist, scholar, language enthusiast and advocate of multilingualism who died in October 2010. The volume pays homage to his important contributions in many fields of linguistics and in the theory of pluricentric languages. The conference in Graz was the first international event to document the situation of non-dominant varieties world-wide in order to identify common or diverging features. It provided substantial insights into the codification and in corpus and status planning of non-dominant varieties. The volume deals with 18 languages and 31 different national and other varieties in 29 countries of the world.