Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

Edited by: Nils Langer and Winifred Davies

Volume 75 in the series Studia Linguistica Germanica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901351

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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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Acknowledgements Nils Langer and Wini Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
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An Introduction to Linguistic Purism Nils Langer and Winifred Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Historical Prescriptivism and Purism
Language norm and language reality. Effectiveness and limits of prescriptivism in New High German Stephan Elspaß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Taming thistles and weeds amidst the wheat: language gardening in nineteenth-century Flanders Wim Vandenbussche, Roland Willemyns, Jetje De Groof and Eline Vanhecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Bad language in Germany’s past – the birth of linguistic norms in the seventeenth century? Maria Barbara Lange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
The revolutionary argumentative pattern in puristic discourse: The Swabian dialect in the debate about the standardization of German in the eighteenth century Joachim Scharloth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
A Comparative Study of Linguistic Purism in the History of England and Germany Maria Geers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
II. Nationhood and Purism
Linguistic purism in German-speaking Switzerland and the Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein 1904-1942 Felicity Rash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Language Nationalism in the Schiller Commemoration Addresses of 1859 Evelyn Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Standard Afrikaans and the different faces of ‘Pure Afrikaans’ in the twentieth century Ria van den Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Reimagining the Nation: Discourses of Language Purism in Luxembourg Kristine Horner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
III. Modern Society and Purism
On the role of language ideologies in linguistic theory and practice: purism and beyond Dieter Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Elements of traditional and “reverse” purism in relation to computer-mediated communication Peter Hohenhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Once an Ossi, always an Ossi: language ideologies and social division in contemporary Germany Patrick Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
IV. Folk Linguistics and Purism
“The Grand Daddy of English”: US, UK, New Zealand and Australian students’ attitudes toward varieties of English Betsy Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Linguistic Purism from several perspectives: views from the “secure” and “insecure” Nancy Niedzielski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Dialect and Written Language: Change in Dialect Norms in the History of the German Language Klaus J. Mattheier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard French Zoë Boughton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
V. Linguists and Purism
“Vorsicht ist nicht immer der bessere Teil der Tapferkeit” – Purism in the historiography of the German language Katja Leyhausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Some Effects of Purist Ideologies on Historical Descriptions of English James Milroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Usefulness and Uselessness of the Term Fremdwort Oskar Reichmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 374
Keywords: Sprachenfrage; Purismus (Sprache); Germanische Völker/Sprache; Sprachwandel

eBook

Published: December 22, 2011
ISBN: 9783110901351

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2005
ISBN: 9783110183375