Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

Winifred Davies

ISBN 10: 3110183374 / ISBN 13: 9783110183375

Editore: De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information Apr 2005, 2005

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Neuware -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.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 384 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
• Editore: De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information Apr 2005
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110183374
• ISBN 13: 9783110183375
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 160 A x 26 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 26 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 725 grammi

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Riassunto

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).

Informazioni sull?autore

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.