[PDF] Linguistic Purism eBook

Author : Nils Langer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 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.

Author : Olivia Walsh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027266735

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This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social, political and economic history. Three different levels of society are examined (official, group and individual), allowing a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’. This is a key element in recent discussions of language planning but is rarely provided in studies of French. The study is also the first to apply to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991), and has evaluated and refined this, enhancing the theoretical underpinnings of the field. The book will be of interest not only to French scholars and sociolinguists, but also to scholars of language planning, language policy and language ideologies in all languages.

Author : Björn H. Jernudd
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110868377

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : George Thomas
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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

Author : George Thomas
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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

Author : Colin Baker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853593628

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This encyclopedia is divided into three sections: individual bilingualism; bilingualism in society and bilingual education. It includes many pictures, graphs, maps and diagrams. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography on bilingualism.

Author : Nils Langer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 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.

Author : Professor of French Philology and Linguistics Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 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.

Author : Stefanowitsch, Anatol
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961102244

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Corpora are used widely in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part introduces the reader to the general methodological discussions surrounding corpus data as well as the practice of doing corpus linguistics, including issues such as the scientific research cycle, research design, extraction of corpus data and statistical evaluation. The second part consists of a number of case studies from the main areas of corpus linguistics (lexical associations, morphology, grammar, text and metaphor), surveying the range of issues studied in corpus linguistics while at the same time showing how they fit into the methodology outlined in the first part.

Author : Peter O. Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110246279

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This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.