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Neuwertig. This is the first of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the "World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties" (WCPCL). It comprises papers about 20 PCLs and 14 NDVs around the world. The second volume encompasses a further 17 papers about the pluricentricity of Portuguese and Spanish. The conference was held at the University of Graz (Austria) on July 8th-11th 2015. The papers fall into five categories: (1) Theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and the description of variation; (2) Different types of pluricentricity in differing environments; (3) African pluricentric languages and non-dominant varieties; (4) The pluricentricity of Arabic and Asian languages; (5) The pluricentricity of European languages inside Europe (Austrian German, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Hungarian, Belgium Dutch, French, Greek, Swedish, Russian). Table of contents Preface 9 I. Key note: Theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and the description of variationRudolf MuhrThe state of the art of research on pluricentric languages:Where we were and where we are now 13 II. Plenary lectures -Different types of pluricentricity in differing environmentsAdrian TienPerspectives on �Chinese� pluricentricity in China,Greater China and beyond 41 Kelen Ernesta FonyuyFrench and English in Cameroon:Pluricentricity in the context of multilingualism and nativisation. 61 Tariq RahmanThe social and political uses of pluricentrism: A case studyof identity-driven dominance in Urdu and Hindi 77 Gerhard EdelmannEuskara / Basque: The importance of statusfor the development of a pluricentric language 91 Evgenija ZhuravlevaTrends in the formation of Kazakhstan�s variety of Russian 107 Jasmine Dum-TragutMigration - integration - social network: Armenian varieties in the 21st century -Or the development of a new variety? 117 III. African pluricentric languages and non-dominant varieties Georg Ziegelmeyer Hausa - A pluricentric language of West Africa? 137 Daniela Waldburger Swahili in Eastern Congo: Status, role and attitudes 149 Abdenour Arezki Between official recognition and social reality:The case of Tamazight/Berber in Algeria 165IV. Arabic - The history of a pluricentric language Mariam AboelezzA History of the Arabic Language and the origin of non-dominant varieties of Arabic 175V. Asian languages - Second level and migrant pluricentricity, pluricentricity in roof languages Corey Miller / Hooman Saeli Second-level pluricentricity in the Persian of Tehran 191 Mariko Takahashi A corpus-based comparative analysis of indigenous invariant tags in Asian Englishes: Features, usage, and registers 205 Sabiha Hashami Hindi as Contact Language in Bihar and Jharkhand:A Sociolinguistic Study of a Non-dominant Variety of Hindi 221 Elaine Ballard / Taiying LeeLanguage maintenance and attitudes ofMandarin speaking families in New Zealand 239 VI. The pluricentricity of European languages inside EuropeAustrian German, Luxemburg German, Swiss German - NDVs asinvisible languages, issues of language loyalty, status and purification 251 Anna D. HavingaNon-Dominant Varieties and Invisible Languages: the case of 18th- and early 19th-centuryAustrian German 253 Ilona Elisabeth Fink Language loyalty to Austrian German: Conclusions of a researchproject at Austrian schools 267 Karl IlleVariety contact and the codification of pluricentric German: An analysis of Austrian German markers inherited from Romance varieties 281 Melanie WagnerGerman at secondary schools in Luxembourg: a first, second orforeign language? Pluricentricity on test 295 Stefanie WyssNational variation in the German language of science 311 Hungarian - Problems of formal status and description Mate Imre Huber Problems and advantages of looking at Hungarian as a pluricentric language.323 Is tv an Kozmacs / Ildiko Vanco The Hungarian language in Slovakia: The use of the dominant standard in education in Slovakian Hungarian schoolsand the effects on education and training 335 Szilard Seb�kLanguage cultivation vs. pluricentricity: the debate onHungarian language use outside of Hungary 357 Anna Biro An insight into Serbian Hungarian 371 Belgium French, Dutch and Swedish - Legitimating non-dominant normsBenedicte Snyers / Philippe HambyeLinguistic Legitimacy among Pluricentric Languages:The Case of Belgian French 385 Godelieve Laureys Luxury or Necessity? The representation of non-dominant varieties in dictionaries: the cases of Dutch and Swedish 399 Marie NelsonSwedish on the Aland islands: A non-dominant yet dominating variety 415 Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Russian, Cyprus Greek - Finding names for pluricentric languages, reconvert NDVs into dominant ones, L2-learner attitudes Gordana Hit Markovic Creating a name for a pluricentric language: From Serbian to Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian 433 Salvatore Del Gaudio / Jurij Dorofeev The Russian Language in Crimea: From Pluricentricityto Monocentricity 449 Dimitris Evripidou / Sviatlana Karpava Attitudes of Russian L2 learners of Greek towards the Greek Language Varieties of Cyprus 469 ISBN 9783631679135