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Linguistic Purism (LINGUISTIC PURITY (identify the grammatical and lexical…
Linguistic Purism
LINGUISTIC PURITY
- need to define what the language is made of.
- identify the grammatical and lexical properties of the language from the oldest surviving texts
[example : lexical borrowings in English and German language. Cheese,käse (caseus), church, kirche (kyriakon)]
- Trace all Greek and Latin influences, then present what is left of pure Germanic or English.
- Language contact also leads to birth of a new language
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-if we could pinpoint the birth of a language,it will always get influenced by other language
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PURISTIC DISCOURSE
- Structural discourse
- Each language have states of purity, the language system is balanced. So use of foreign words damages the system.
- ideological discourse
- foreign elements in language seen as a corruption od cultural purity.
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- Use of foreign language leads to social division within society.
- less educated and elderly might not understand new borrowings words introduced into specific domains.
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- use of foreign language words is scorned as chasing fashionable trends.
- give impressions of being intellectual (although not and seen superficial)
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• General definition: the desire to eliminate certain undesirable features from a language including grammatical errors, jargon & other foreign words.
According to Trask, a belief that words of foreign origin are a kind of contamination sullying the purity of language. (a belief)
According to Thomas, it is the removal of linguistic elements beyond those which are foreign to those which are ‘undesirable’. (an activity/an act)
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