Wow! eBook
Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages. Getting the Picture: In Memory of Michael Clyne- In Collaboration with Catrin Norrby, Leo … Deutsch – Sprache der Gegenwart) New Edition
Author(s): Rudolf Muhr
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date: 9 Mar. 2012
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 498 pages
- ISBN-10: 3631620241
- ISBN-13: 9783631620243
Book Description
This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1st International 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.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Rudolf Muhr is the founder and director of the Austrian German Research Center and a member of the Center for Plurilingualism at Graz University. He worked in the fields of linguistics and German as a foreign or second language. The focus of his research and his teaching activities is on sociolinguistics and pragmatics.
