An invitation to pluricentrism. Notes for the study of a pluricentric language in conflict Authors Josep Àngel Mas Castells Universitat Politècnica de València Keywords: pluricentricity, language standardization, linguistic conflict, Catalan, cognitive sociolinguistics. Abstract Pluricentrism is the framework for studying a specific type of standardization: one that affects languages with more than one standard variety. Its original contribution is precisely to highlight that there are many languages that have more than one standard variety and that have been codified by more than one centre, with different degrees of cooperation between them. In three decades of evolution, this concept has gone from considering the use of one same language in several countries as the defining element of pluricentricity to considering the de facto existence of explicit or implicit rules of use of different varieties of a formal standard. As regards methodology, pragmatics and especially cognitive sociolinguistics have provided the necessary empirical approach to research. Drawing on this body of theoretical and methodological thought, this paper presents a research proposal for the standardization of Catalan, based on its conceptualization as a pluricentric language in conflict.Keywords: pluricentricity, language standardization, linguistic conflict, Catalan, cognitive sociolinguistics. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2021-03-25 Issue No. 31 (2021): L’estandardologia comparada: teoria i pràctica Section Secció monogràfica. L'estandardologia comparada: teoria i pràctica License Intellectual property Intellectual property in articles belongs to the respective authors. By submitting their articles to TSC to request their publication, authors agree to the following: Authors assign all rights of reproduction, public communication and distribution of articles submitted for publication in TSC to the SCS (a subsidiary of the IEC). Authors are accountable to the SCS for the authorship and originality of their articles. It is the responsibility of authors to obtain permissions to reproduce graphic material sourced from elsewhere and included in their articles. The SCS may not be held liable for any possible violation of intellectual property rights by authors. Material published in TSC is subject - unless otherwise indicated in the text or in graphic material - to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) licence, the full text of which can be found at this link. Accordingly, the general public may reproduce, distribute and communicate the article provided the author and publisher are acknowledged and as long as no commercial or derivative use is made of the article. TSC cannot be held responsible for ideas and opinions as expressed by the authors of articles published in the journal.
