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

This volume seeks to extend and expand our current understanding of the processes of language standardization, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative appr

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context wher