30.884, Sum: Summary of Pluricentricity vs. Pluri-areality

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Subject: 30.884, Sum: Summary of Pluricentricity vs. Pluri-areality

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:41:47
From: Stefan Dollinger [stefan.dollinger at ubc.ca]
Subject: Summary of Pluricentricity vs. Pluri-areality

 
Pursuant to my query posted in the summer of 2017 on the pluricentricity of
language varieties (original post:
https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-3400.html), I can now follow up with an
open-access summary of the problem as it relates to - but is not limited to -
the Germanic languages:

https://www.academia.edu/37714477/_Chapter_1_frontmatter_The_Pluricentricity_D
ebate_On_Austrian_German_and_other_Germanic_Standard_Varieties_forthc._in_Marc
h_April_2019_

The accompanying book is currently In press, as in a short version of the
argument which is forthcoming later this year or in early 2020 in the Journal
of Linguistic Geography. An abstract can be seen here:
https://www.academia.edu/38389481/Debunking_pluri-areality_on_the_pluricentric
_perspective_of_national_varieties

As you can see from these texts, the term of ''pluri-areality'' (usually only
use in German as ''pluriareal'') appears to be fully synonymous with the
established low-level descriptive term ''geographical variation'', a term that
allows no predictions and hypothesis testing. The point is made that
''pluri-areality'' can therefore not be used in lieu of the theoretical
concept of pluricentricity, which allows all these tests. The question further
arises what legitimacy ''pluri-areality'' may have over the term
''geographical variation''.

Thanks to all those who posted to the original query. I hope they will find
the summary and assessment a useful spring board for their own work.
 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Germanic



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