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 …

Title: The soft power of the Russian language: pluricentricity, politics and policies/edited by
Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova and Maria Yelenevskaya. Description: New York, NY …

Dutch is a pluricentric language with Dutch Dutch as the dominant variety and Belgian Dutch
in the non-dominant position. In discussions on the pluricentrism of Dutch there is a …

This essay–which also serves as an introduction to the six other articles in this special issue–
examines the development of the field of language standardisation studies in recent …

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than one nation. They range from languages diųused widely across diųerent continents …

To answer the ontological and political questions of what is Portuguese and what people
want it to be, we will highlight the reality of a pluricentric language and the desire for an …

This paper aims at verifying the observation that many speakers of closely related Atlantic
English (-lexifier) Pidgin (s) and Creole (s), or EP/C (s), can understand each other. In order …

This chapter highlights often underestimated links between the fields of minority language
media studies, sociolinguistics and translation studies. It seeks to clarify key concepts …

Historical accounts of immigration from the Arab world show that Arab immigrants ended up
in different New World destinations including North America, Australia, and New Zealand …

In Ukraine and in Belarus, the Russian language enjoys a very different status and reach.
While in Belarus it is formally the “second state language”, being de facto the only one used …