Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

Author: Nils Langer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-12-22

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 3110901358

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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.

Linguistic Purism in Action
Linguistic Purism in Action

Author: Nils Langer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-02-18

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3110881101

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The auxiliary do (tun) is one of the most-discussed constructions in West Germanic. In German, there is a striking opposition between modern standard German, where the construction is virtually ungrammatical and considered to be "sub-standard" by most speakers, whilst, as this book shows, the construction is attested in all modern dialects as well as historic stages since 1350. In answering why auxiliary tun is ungrammatical in modern standard German, it is shown that the stigmatization of tun was caused by prescriptive grammarians in the 16th-18th century. Furthermore it is shown that the stigmatization of tun as "bad" German occurred in clearly discernible stages, from bad poetry (1550-1680), to bad written German (1680-1740) and finally to "bad" German in general (after 1740), thus providing evidence that the history of the standardization of German needs to take into account direct metalinguistic comments from prescriptive grammarians. The effectiveness of linguistic purism is also shown by evidence from two other constructions, namely polynegation and double perfect.

Linguistic Purism
Linguistic Purism

Author: George Thomas

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in small areas of linguistics.

Metalinguistic Perspectives on Germanic Languages
Metalinguistic Perspectives on Germanic Languages

Author: Gijsbert Rutten

Publisher: Historical Sociolinguistics

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783034318532

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In what ways has language been central to constructing, challenging and reconfiguring social and political boundaries? This volume focuses on how language functions as a marker of identity, drawing on case studies across Europe.

Anglicisms in the German Language - in Spite of Linguistic Purism?
Anglicisms in the German Language - in Spite of Linguistic Purism?

Author: Nina Jeanette Hofferberth

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9783656456001

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, printed single-sided, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut fur England- und Amerikastudien), language: English, abstract: Hatte ich vorsichtshalber den Times-Artikel uber die 'German linguistic submissivness', unsere bekannte sprachliche Unterwurfigkeit, uberflogen, muss ich die Travel-Service-Hostess hinter dem Counter ziemlich perplex angestarrt haben, als sie loslegte: Jetten sie single or double, IT, Comfort oder Business Class? Carrier? In London Bed & Breakfast oder Full Service, Fly-And-Drive-Arrangement, Rent-a-car oder nur Transfer vom Airport zur City-Lodge? (Pollmeier 1994, in Spitzmuller 2005: 117). Most linguist are consistent with the fact that German linguistic purism came to an end with the abolition of the 'Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein (ADSV)' in 1940 (Pfalzgraf 2006: 9). Since the late 1990s, however, the debate about foreign words in German has become more intense. A number of politicians from all parties have recently criticezed the overuse of Anglicisms. Furthermore, there have been demands for a law to protect the German language - as France did in 1975. Nationally supported associations as well as private organizations and internet homepages combat the so-called 'flood' of Anglicisms in German. In 1899, Hermann Dunger wrote an article on Wider die Englanderei in der deutschen Sprache, but the opposition to the English influence has existed since the 17th century

The German-Speaking World
The German-Speaking World

Author: Patrick Stevenson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1134792859

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This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the German language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of German but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics. It combines text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems. In Part One Patrick Stevenson invites readers to investigate and reflect on issues about the status and function of the German language in relation to its speakers and to speakers of other languages with which it comes into contact. In Part Two the focus shifts to the forms and functions of individual features of the language. This involves, for example, identifying features of regional speech forms, analysing similarities and differences between written and spoken German, or looking at the 'social meaning' underlying different forms of address. Part Three explores the relationship between the German language and the nature of 'Germanness'. It concentrates on people's attitudes towards the language, the ways in which it is changing, and their views on what it represents for them.

Standardization
Standardization

Author: Andrew Robert Linn

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9027247471

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This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines. The papers cover a historical range from the Middle Ages to the present and a geographical range from South Africa to Iceland, but all fall into one of the following categories: 1) shaping and diffusing a standard language; 2) the relationship between standard and identity; 3) non-standardization, de-standardization and re-standardization.

Women in the History of Linguistics
Women in the History of Linguistics

Author: Professor of French Philology and Linguistics Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0198754957

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This volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and grammars to language teaching methods and language policy.

The Golden Mean of Languages
The Golden Mean of Languages

Author: Alisa van de Haar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 9004408592

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Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both French and Dutch were spoken as local tongues.