Title: Pluricentricity : language variation and sociocognitive dimensions /
Authors: Soares da Silva, Augusto
Year: 2014
Subjects: Language and languages Variation Congresses; Standard language Congresses.; Sociolinguistics Congresses.; Language and languages Variation; Standard language.; Sociolinguistics.
Contents: Introduction. Pluricentricity, language-internal variation and cognitive linguistics / Gitte Kristiansen -- Enregistering pluricentric German / Peter Auer -- Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French / Georges Lüdi -- Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem / Ángel López-García -- Lexical variation in aggregate perspective / Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts -- Stable lexical marker analysis : a corpus-based identification of lexical variation / Dirk De Hertog, Kris Heylen, and Dirk Speelman -- The pluricentricity of Portuguese : a sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese / Augusto Soares da Silva -- Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots : sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English / Edgar W. Schneider -- Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch / Dirk Speelman, Leen Impe, and Dirk Geeraerts -- National variation of address in pluricentric languages : the examples of Swedish and German / Catrin Norrby and Heinz L. Kretzenbacher.