This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways:
Surveying a wide range of languages and approaches, this Handbook is an essential resource for all those interested in language standards and standard languages
The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects the vitality and growth of the discipli
This volume seeks to extend and expand our current understanding of the processes of language standardization, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative appr
The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is
