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Linguistic Purism, Protectionism, and Nationalism in the Germanic Languages Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Nicola McLelland
Nicola McLelland*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
*
Department of German, Room C32, Trent Building, Department of German, University of Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, [nicola.mclelland@nottingham.ac.uk]
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Abstract

This paper re-examines the notions of “linguistic purism” and “linguistic nationalism” with respect to public discourses of language cultivation in recent years in a number of Germanic-speaking countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and, briefly, Norway). In particular, the paper considers domain protection and attitudes to spelling variability and spelling reform. While in Germany linguistic nationalism and linguistic purism meet in speaker attitudes towards loanwords and spelling reform, in other Germanic-speaking countries linguistic nationalism may also take different forms, and linguistic purism may have other targets and motivations.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 21 , Issue 2: Special Issue in Honour of Martin Durrell , June 2009 , pp. 93 - 112
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 2009

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