Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages. Getting the Picture

Contents: John Hajek: Homage to Michael Clyne: linguist, colleague and advocate - Rudolf Muhr: Linguistic dominance and non-dominance in pluricentric languages. A typology - Catrin Norby/Camilla Wide/Jan Lindström/Jenny Nilsson: Finland Swedish as a non-dominant variety of Swedish - extending the scope to pragmatic and interactional aspects - Carla Amorós/Carmen Fernández/Natividad Hernández/Emilio Prieto: Difficulties in defining the standard Spanish lexicon - Nils Langer: Finding non-dominant languages in the nineteenth century - problems and potentials from historical sociolinguistics - Chiara Messina: Researching a Language for Special Purposes within a Non-Dominant Variety: Problematic Issues and possible Ways Out. An Overview based on the Example of Austrian German - Heinz L. Kretzenbacher: The emancipation of Strine: Australian English as an established post-colonial national standard of English - Johan De Caluwe: Dutch as a bi-centric language: a lexicographic (r)evolution - John Hajek: (Non-)dominant varieties of a (non-) pluricentric language? Italian in Italian and Switzerland - Marilena Karyolemou: Cypriot Greek as a non-dominant veriety of Greek - Jasmine Dum-Tragut: Amen tel hay kay. 20 years later - Pluricentric Armenian and its changed dominance hierarchy - Salvatore del Gaudio: The Russian Language in Ukraine: some unsettled questions about its status as a 'national' variety - Curt Woolhiser: "Belarusian Russian": Sociolinguistic Status and Discursive Representations - Domergue Sumien: Occitan: harmonizing non-dominant standards throughout four states - Josep-Àngel Mas: Catalan as a pluricentric language: the Valencian case - Esther Nuñez Villanueva: The role of the media in standardising a regional variety: the case of Canal Sur and Seville Spanish in the pluricentric debate - Maria Eugenia L. Durate: When speech and writing are too far apart. Non-dominant features of Brazilian Portuguese becoming dominant - Aline Bazenga: Variation in subject-verb

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.