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

This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and

Explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. This book argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a cent

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and s