Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards
Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh
[Studies in Language Variation, 32] 2025. viii, 196 pp. + index
Ryan Durgasingh
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ryan Durgasingh plays a role.
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Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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2025 Chapter 9. Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarity Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 187–195 | Chapter
Moving beyond the contention which has characterized the pluricentricity and pluriareality debate, this summative chapter draws together the argumentative strands in the chapters in this volume to build the case for their complementarity. We show the various ways in which terminological… read more
2025 Chapter 1. Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality — The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
The question of how to conceptualize variation in languages with more than one standard variety, such as English, Dutch, or German, has been a central one to variation linguistics. Variation in these languages is sometimes modeled according to two opposed approaches: pluricentricity and… read more