English

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 9781557532015), 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 9781412817653), 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 9783110175325), 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 9783034300582), 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.