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Linguistic purism in the Germanic languages / edited by Nils Langer and Winifred V. Davies

Published
Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 374 pages).
Additional Creators
Langer, Nils, 1969- and Davies, W. V. (Winifred V.)
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English.
Contents
An Introduction to linguistic purism -- I. Historical Prescriptivism and Purism -- Language norm and language reality. Effectiveness and limits of prescriptivism in New High German -- Taming thistles and weeds amidst the wheat: language gardening in nineteenth-century Flanders -- Bad language in Germany�s past � The birth of linguistic norms in the seventeenth century? -- The Revolutionary Argumentative Pattern in Puristic Discourse: The Swabian dialect in the debate about the standardization of German in the eighteenth century, A comparative study of linguistic purism in the history of England and GermanyII. Nationhood and Purism -- Linguistic purism in German-speaking Switzerland and the Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein 1904�1942 -- Language nationalism in the Schiller commemoration addresses of 1859 -- Standard Afrikaans and the different faces of �Pure� Afrikaans in the twentieth century -- Reimagining the Nation: Discourses of language purism in Luxembourg -- III. Modern Society and Purism -- On the role of language ideologies in linguistic theory and practice: purism and beyond, Elements of traditional and �reverse� purism in relation to computer-mediated communicationOnce an Ossi, always an Ossi: Language ideologies and social division in contemporary Germany -- IV. Folk Linguistics and Purism -- �The Grand Daddy of English�: US, UK, New Zealand and Australian students� attitudes towards varieties of English -- Linguistic purism from several perspectives: views from the �secure� and the �insecure� -- Dialect and written language: Change in dialect norms in the history of the German language, and Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard FrenchV. Linguists and Purism -- “Caution is not always the better part of valour� � Purism in the historiography of the German language -- Some effects of purist ideologies on historical descriptions of English -- Usefulness and uselessness of the term Fremdwort -- Index
Summary
The text is a product of a conference held at the University of Bristol in April 2003.
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ISBN
9783110901351 (electronic bk.)
3110901358 (electronic bk.)
3110183374 (alk. paper)
9783110183375 (alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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