Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Enregistering pluricentric German -- Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French -- Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem -- Part II: Corpus-based studies -- Lexical variation in aggregate perspective -- Stable Lexical Marker Analysis: A corpus-based identification of lexical variation -- The pluricentricity of Portuguese: A sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese -- Part III: Experimental and attitudinal studies -- Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots? Sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English -- Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch -- National variation of address in pluricentric languages: The examples of Swedish and German -- Subject index -- Author index