Pluricentric Languages
Subtitle: Differing Norms in Different Nations (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: October 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9783110128550
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Variation; Comparative And Contrastive Linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language and languages; Standard language
First sentence: The term pluricentric was employed by Kloss (1978 II: 66-67) to describe languages with several interacting centres, each providing a national variety with at least some of its own (codified) norms.