Pluricentricity : : Language Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions / / ed. by Augusto Soares da Silva.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Auer, Peter,; De Hertog, Dirk,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Heylen, Kris,; Impe, Leen,; Kretzenbacher, Heinz L.,; Kristiansen, Gitte,; López-García, Ángel,; Lüdi, Georges,; Norrby, Catrin,; Ruette, Tom,; Schneider, Edgar W.,; Silva, Augusto Soares da,; Speelman, Dirk,
• HerausgeberIn: Soares da Silva, Augusto,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Table of contents --; List of contributors --; Introduction --; Part I: Theoretical perspectives --; Enregistering pluricentric German --; Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French --; Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem --; Part II: Corpus-based studies --; Lexical variation in aggregate perspective --; Stable Lexical Marker Analysis: A corpus-based identification of lexical variation --; The pluricentricity of Portuguese: A sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese --; Part III: Experimental and attitudinal studies --; Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots? Sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English --; Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch --; National variation of address in pluricentric languages: The examples of Swedish and German --; Subject index --; Author index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110303643; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• ISSN: 1861-4078
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110303643
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Augusto Soares da Silva.

The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon; it can be understood as either differing national standards or differing local norms. The nine studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. They include research undertaken in both the Cognitive Linguistic and socolinguistic tradition, with particular emphasis upon the emerging framework of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Six languages, all more or less pluricentric, are analyzed: four Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch and Swedish) and two Romance languages (Portuguese and French). The volume describes patterns of phonetic, lexical and morphosyntactic variation, and perception and attitudes in relation to these pluricentric languages. It makes use of advanced empirical methods able to account for the complex interplay between conceptual and social aspects of pluricentric variation and other forms of language-internal variation.