Pluricentricity and Pluriareality

Moving beyond the contention which has characterized the pluricentricity and pluriareality debate, this summative chapter draws together the argumentative strands in the chapters in this volume to build the case for their complementarity. We show the various ways in which terminological differences, of geography and of sociolinguistics, have somewhat obscured the underlying similarities of these models, and highlight many of the key findings of this book’s contributors in doing so. The chapter e