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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langer, Nils, 1969-

Davies, W. V. (Winifred V.)

Series:

Studia linguistica Germanica ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Standardization--History.

Germanic languages.

Germanic languages--History.

Germanic languages--Social aspects.

Germanic languages--Dialects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements / Langer, Nils / Davies, Wini

Contents

An Introduction to Linguistic Purism / Langer, Nils / Davies, Winifred

I. Historical Prescriptivism and Purism

Language norm and language reality. Effectiveness and limits of prescriptivism in New High German / Elspaß, Stephan

Taming thistles and weeds amidst the wheat: language gardening in nineteenth-century Flanders / Vandenbussche, Wim / Willemyns, Roland / De Groof, Jetje / Vanhecke, Eline

Bad language in Germany's past - the birth of linguistic norms in the seventeenth century? / Lange, Maria Barbara

The revolutionary argumentative pattern in puristic discourse: The Swabian dialect in the debate about the standardization of German in the eighteenth century / Scharloth, Joachim

A Comparative Study of Linguistic Purism in the History of England and Germany / Geers, Maria

II. Nationhood and Purism

Linguistic purism in German-speaking Switzerland and the Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein 1904-1942 / Rash, Felicity

Language Nationalism in the Schiller Commemoration Addresses of 1859 / Ziegler, Evelyn

Standard Afrikaans and the different faces of 'Pure Afrikaans' in the twentieth century / van den Berg, Ria

Reimagining the Nation: Discourses of Language Purism in Luxembourg / Horner, Kristine

III. Modern Society and Purism

On the role of language ideologies in linguistic theory and practice: purism and beyond / Stein, Dieter

Elements of traditional and "reverse" purism in relation to computer-mediated communication / Hohenhaus, Peter

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

IV. Folk Linguistics and Purism

"The Grand Daddy of English": US, UK, New Zealand and Australian students' attitudes toward varieties of English / Evans, Betsy

Linguistic Purism from several perspectives: views from the "secure" and "insecure" / Niedzielski, Nancy

Dialect and Written Language: Change in Dialect Norms in the History of the German Language / Mattheier, Klaus J.

Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard French / Boughton, Zoë

V. Linguists and Purism

"Vorsicht ist nicht immer der bessere Teil der Tapferkeit" - Purism in the historiography of the German language / Leyhausen, Katja

Some Effects of Purist Ideologies on Historical Descriptions of English / Milroy, James

Usefulness and Uselessness of the Term Fremdwort / Reichmann, Oskar

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110901351

3110901358

OCLC:

979589550