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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Langer, Nils, 1969-, Davies, W. V. (Winifred V.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2005]
Series:	Studia linguistica Germanica ; 75.
Subjects:	Germanic languages > Standardization > History. Germanic languages > History. Germanic languages > Social aspects. Germanic languages > Dialects. Germanic languages > Social aspects > Congresses. Germanic languages > Dialects > Congresses. Germanic languages > History > Congresses. Germanic languages > Standardization > History > Congresses. Germanic languages > Dialects Germanic languages > Social aspects Germanic languages > Standardization Germanic languages Conference papers and proceedings History
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Table of 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 Germanyâ€?s past â€? 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 1904â€?1942
Language nationalism in the Schiller commemoration addresses of 1859
Standard Afrikaans and the different faces of â€?Pureâ€? 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 â€?reverseâ€? 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
â€?The Grand Daddy of Englishâ€?: US, UK, New Zealand and Australian studentsâ€? attitudes towards varieties of English
Linguistic purism from several perspectives: views from the â€?secureâ€? and the â€?insecureâ€?
Dialect and written language: Change in dialect norms in the history of the German language
Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard FrenchV. Linguists and Purism
â€œCaution is not always the better part of valourâ€? â€? 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

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

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