austrocentric

English

Etymology

From austro- +‎ -centric.

Adjective

austrocentric (comparative more austrocentric, superlative most austrocentric)

1. Focused on Australia or the people and culture of Australia
2. Focused on Austria or the people and culture of Austria
   • 2001, Peter Thaler, The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-building in a Modern Society, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 76:

     In his extensive scholarly work, including his four-volume Deutsche Einheir, Srhik tried to merge and transcend Prussocentric and Austrocentric approaches to German history.

   • year unknown, Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka, Austria in the New Europe, Transaction Publishers →ISBN, page 168

     Although the author claims not to plead for or against the Austrian policy, his study implies on the one hand a criticism of the somewhat biased, austrocentric policy of the government.

3. Focused on the South of England or the people and culture of Southern England
   • 2004, A Handbook of Varieties of English: CD-ROM., Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 113:

     Expressions such as “North of Watford Gap” testify to the perceptions of southerners in this “austrocentric” nation (Wales 2002: 46).

   • 2010, Javier Ruano-García, Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary Corpus-based Study, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 25:

     All of them have extended "our knowledge of the development of English beyond Southern England" (Rissanen 2000: 11), thereby favouring a non-austrocentric perspective.