The Politics of Language Purism

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Björn H. Jernudd, Michael J. Shapiro
Walter de Gruyter, Jul 11, 2011 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 255 pages
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Contents

an introduction
1
A political approach to language purism
21
literary and linguistic movements of political empowerment in America Africa the South Pacific and Europe
31
purism at the international level
53
the case of Persian
81
Purism and correctness in the Bengali speech community
105
Language purism in Korea today
113
Hieratic components in Soviet dictionaries of Yiddish Dungan and Belorussian
141
the pure and impure of American poetry
169
the Sri Lankan experience
185
Purism and alienation in recent Taiwanese fiction
197
Language purism as a type of language correction
211
The linguistic and social dimensions of purism
225
Subject index
233
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