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

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 374 pages).
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Series Studia linguistica Germanica ; 75
Studia linguistica Germanica ; 75.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary The text is a product of a conference held at the University of Bristol in April 2003.
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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 Germany""""II. 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 communication""""Once 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""
""Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard French""""V. 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""
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Germanic languages -- Standardization -- History.
Germanic languages -- Standardization.
History.
Germanic languages.
Germanic languages -- History.
Germanic languages -- Social aspects.
Germanic languages -- Social aspects.
Germanic languages -- Dialects.
Germanic languages -- Dialects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Langer, Nils, 1969-
Davies, W. V. (Winifred V.)
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 2004030892 (OCoLC)57352761
ISBN 9783110901351 (electronic book)
3110901358 (electronic book)
3110183374 (alkaline paper)
9783110183375 (alkaline paper)