Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
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Edited by:
Nils Langer
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Nils Langer is a Lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Bristol, UK.
Winifred Davies is a Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK.
Reviews
"[...] a very useful collection of studies [...]"
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2007
"Insgesamt präsentiert der Sammelband eine gelungene Mischung an Themen und Ansätzen."
Christian Efing in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 2/2006
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I. Historical Prescriptivism and Purism
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Stephan Elspaß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Wim Vandenbussche, Roland Willemyns, Jetje De Groof and Eline Vanhecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Maria Barbara Lange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Joachim Scharloth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Maria Geers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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II. Nationhood and Purism
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Felicity Rash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Evelyn Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ria van den Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Kristine Horner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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III. Modern Society and Purism
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Dieter Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Peter Hohenhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Patrick Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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IV. Folk Linguistics and Purism
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Betsy Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Nancy Niedzielski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Klaus J. Mattheier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Zoë Boughton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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V. Linguists and Purism
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James Milroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Oskar Reichmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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