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Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages (Hardcover)
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Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages (Hardcover)
Series: Studia Linguistica Germanica
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Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to
the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers
with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in
linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it
develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities,
etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the
subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the
contributions presented at a conference at the University of
Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the
relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the
influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to
nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the
standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society,
e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to
folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of
English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic
notions in the historiography of German or English.
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