Linguistic purism in the Germanic languages:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York W. de Gruyter c2005
Series:Studia linguistica Germanica 75
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Online Access:DE-824
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Biographical note: 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.
Main description: This volume deals with linguistic purism in its many realizations. In particular, the articles look at 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)
Review text: "[...] 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 374 Seiten)
ISBN:3110183374
9783110183375
9783110901351

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