On comparing the centers of plurinational languages: The example of German

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1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Contrastive Sociolinguistics: An introduction 1
4. Part I Bilingualism – Multilingualism
5. On comparing the centers of plurinational languages: The example of German 17
6. Sociolinguistic characters: On comparing linguistic minorities 37
7. Bilingualism-multilingualism: Its characteristics and properties 57
8. In search of the deeper message: Codeswitching rationales of Mexican-Americans and Malaysians 77
9. Multilingualism through migration: A comparison of internal and external migrant communities in Switzerland 103
10. A contrastive analysis of language use and contact in the Alemannic area: Colmar and Freiburg 135
11. Language attitudes on either side of the linguistic frontier: A sociolinguistic survey in the Voeren/Fouron-area and in Old Belgium North 157
12. Part II Language planning and language politics
13. Educational language choice – multilingual diversity or monolingual reductionism? 175
14. Ecological and non-ecological approaches to language planning 205
15. The inequality of languages: Economic aspects of language estimation 213
16. Language borders in northern France and in Belgium: A contrastive analysis 229
17. Feminist language planning and titles for women: Some crosslinguistic perspectives 251
18. Pidgins and Creoles as literary languages: Ausbau and Abstand 271
19. The typology of dictionaries of English-based pidgins and Creoles 291
20. Part III Cross-linguistic discourse analysis
21. Contrastive sociolinguistics and the theory of “cultural scripts”: Chinese vs English 313
22. Contrastive discourse analysis and misunderstanding: The case of German and English 345
23. Two polite speech acts in contrastive view: Aspects of the realization of requesting and thanking in French and Italian 363
24. Concepts of communicative virtues (CCV) in Japanese and German 385
25. Referential perspective in speech acts: A comparison between German and Japanese 411
26. Male-female speaking practices across cultures 447
27. Narrative universals? Some considerations and perspectives 475
28. Index 497