List of tables
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Terminological note
1. The problem
2. Standardizing German: Concepts and background
3. The international pluricentric model
4. The German "pluri-areal" model
5. The case against pluricentricity
6. The case against "pluri-areality"
7. The lynchpin: Speaker attitudes
8. Examples: Trends, not categoricity
9. Safeguards in the modelling of standard varieties
10. Bibliography
General index.