The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties

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Stefan Dollinger (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

The Pluricentricity Debate

On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties

Stefan Dollinger (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

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Routledge
18 December 2020

Language: history & general works; Dialect, slang & jargon

Series: Routledge Focus on Linguistics

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 allows for national standard varieties, and the notion of ""pluri-areality,"" which seeks to challenge the former. Looking at the debate from three angles – methodological, theoretical, and epistemological – the volume draws on data from German and English, with additional perspectives from Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, to establish if and to what degree ""pluri-areality"" and pluricentricity model various sociolinguistic situations adequately. Dollinger argues that ""pluri-areality"" is synonymous with ""geographical variation"" and, as such, no match for pluricentricity. Instead, ""pluri-areality"" presupposes an atheoretical, supposedly ""neutral"", data-driven linguistics that violates basic science-theoretical principles. Three fail-safes are suggested – the uniformitarian hypothesis, Popper’s theory of falsification and speaker attitudes – to avoid philological incompatibilities and terminological clutter. This book is of particular interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Germanic languages and linguists more generally.

By: Stefan Dollinger (The University of British Columbia Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780367728847
ISBN 10: 0367728842
Series: Routledge Focus on Linguistics
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stefan Dollinger is Associate Professor at UBC Vancouver, specializing in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic border studies. He is the author of New-Dialect Formation in Canada (2008) and The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology (2015), and Chief Editor of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles – www.dchp.ca/dchp2 (2017).