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- German, like English, French, Swahili, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese and other languages, is an instance of what Kloss (1978: 66–7) terms a ‘pluricentric’ language, i.e. a language with several interacting centres, each providing a national variety with at least some of its own (codified) norms.
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German. Standard German is often considered an asymmetric pluricentric language; [23] the standard used in Germany is often considered dominant, mostly because of the sheer number of its speakers and their frequent lack of awareness of the Austrian Standard German and Swiss Standard German varieties.
stance, Clyne (1984: 1) defines a pluricentric language as one “with several national varieties, each with its own norm”, and in The German Language in a Changing Eu-rope he calls a pluricentric language “one with several interacting centres, each providing a national variety with at least some of its own (codified) norms” (Clyne 1995 ...
(c) a regional language (e.g. German in Italy: South Tyrol, Catalan in France: etc.). The language therefore must have official recognition that exceeds the status of a minority language , as it otherwise cannot function as a norm-setting centre.
However at the moment we can see repeated attempts by German scholars to downgrade Austrian German to a regional variety and to deny the status of a national variety by pretending that German is not a “pluricentric” but a “pluriareal” language. See [3] See Karyolemou (2012).
German, like English, French, Swahili, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese and other languages, is an instance of what Kloss (1978: 66–7) terms a ‘pluricentric’ language, i.e. a language with several interacting centres, each providing a national variety with at least some of its own (codified) norms. Hans Moser (1989: 20) describes ...
- Michael Clyne
- 1995
May 24, 2012 · German is a pluricentric language with different standard varieties in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany (Ammon, 1995). Swiss Standard German refers to Standard German in Switzerland (see Clyne, 1992)
The One Standard German Axiom is a concept by Austrian-Canadian UBC linguist Stefan Dollinger in his 2019 monograph The Pluricentricity Debate, used to describe what he believes is scepticism in German dialectology and linguistics towards the idea of multiple standard varieties.
