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Title The Politics of language purism / edited by Björn H. Jernudd, Michael J. Shapiro
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages) : portrait
Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 54
Contributions to the sociology of language ; 54.
Contents The texture of language purism: an introduction -- A political approach to language purism -- The politics of purity and exclusion: literary and linguistic movements of political empowerment in America, Africa, the South Pacific, and Europe -- Francophonie: purism at the international level -- Language reform movement and its language: the case of Persian -- Purism and correctness in the Bengali speech community -- Language purism in Korea today -- Hieratic components in Soviet dictionaries of Yiddish, Dungan, and Belorussian
Linguistic scapegoating: the pure and impure of American poetryPurism, language, and creativity: the Sri Lankan experience -- Purism and alienation in recent Taiwanese fiction -- Language purism as a type of language correction -- The linguistic and social dimensions of purism -- Subject index
Analysis Language Social aspects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Language purism.
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages -- Political aspects
Language purism
Sprachpolitik
Sprachpurismus
Sociolinguistica.
Politique linguistique -- Etudes comparatives.
Honolulu <Hawaii, 1985>
Form Electronic book
Author Jernudd, Björn H
Shapiro, Michael J
LC no. 89012410
ISBN 9783110868371
3110868377