The Politics of Language Purism / / ed. by Björn H. Jernudd, Michael J. Shapiro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Annamalai, E.,; Dissanayake, Wimal,; Henningsen, Manfred,; Hsu, Wen-Hsiung,; Jernudd, Björn Η.,; Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad,; Musa, Monsur,; Neustupný, J. V.,; Park, Nahm-Sheik,; Shapiro, Michael J.,; Weinstein, Brian,; Wexler, Paul,; Wilson, Rob,
• HerausgeberIn: Jernudd, Björn H.,; Shapiro, Michael J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 54
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-VI
• 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 poetry
• Purism, 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