Pluricentrism studies the various interacting codified standard forms of languages, in other words, languages that do not have a single codified standard form in terms of prestige and use. This is due to the fact that codification is carried out by more than one decision-making institution (political or cultural), giving rise to more than one variety of standard spoken form in different territories. The study of pluricentrism highlights the existence of many pluricentric languages, more than forty of which have already been catalogued, Catalan among them.<\/p>\n
Josep \u00c0ngel Mas<\/strong><\/a>, an expert in linguistic standardization at Campus Gandia of the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia<\/a> (UPV)<\/a>, focuses much of his research in this field of study. The researcher is a member of the NDV Working Group<\/a>, an international research group dedicated to pluricentric languages. In particular Mas studies the non-dominant varieties in the linguistic codification and standardization processes, putting forth the consideration of Catalan as a pluricentric language and of Valenciano as the most dominant of its non-dominant varieties.<\/p>\n