Once an Ossi, always an Ossi: language ideologies and social division in contemporary Germany

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. An Introduction to Linguistic Purism 1
5. I. Historical Prescriptivism and Purism
6. Language norm and language reality. Effectiveness and limits of prescriptivism in New High German 20
7. Taming thistles and weeds amidst the wheat: language gardening in nineteenth-century Flanders 46
8. Bad language in Germany’s past – the birth of linguistic norms in the seventeenth century? 62
9. The revolutionary argumentative pattern in puristic discourse: The Swabian dialect in the debate about the standardization of German in the eighteenth century 86
10. A Comparative Study of Linguistic Purism in the History of England and Germany 97
11. II. Nationhood and Purism
12. Linguistic purism in German-speaking Switzerland and the Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein 1904-1942 110
13. Language Nationalism in the Schiller Commemoration Addresses of 1859 124
14. Standard Afrikaans and the different faces of ‘Pure Afrikaans’ in the twentieth century 144
15. Reimagining the Nation: Discourses of Language Purism in Luxembourg 166
16. III. Modern Society and Purism
17. On the role of language ideologies in linguistic theory and practice: purism and beyond 188
18. Elements of traditional and “reverse” purism in relation to computer-mediated communication 204
19. Once an Ossi, always an Ossi: language ideologies and social division in contemporary Germany 221
20. IV. Folk Linguistics and Purism
21. “The Grand Daddy of English”: US, UK, New Zealand and Australian students’ attitudes toward varieties of English 240
22. Linguistic Purism from several perspectives: views from the “secure” and “insecure” 252
23. Dialect and Written Language: Change in Dialect Norms in the History of the German Language 263
24. Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard French 282
25. V. Linguists and Purism
26. “Vorsicht ist nicht immer der bessere Teil der Tapferkeit” – Purism in the historiography of the German language 302
27. Some Effects of Purist Ideologies on Historical Descriptions of English 324
28. Usefulness and Uselessness of the Term Fremdwort 343
29. Index 361