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""A comparative study of linguistic purism in the history of England and Germany""""II. Nationhood and Purism""; ""Linguistic purism in German-speaking Switzerland and the Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein 1904�1942""; ""Language nationalism in the Schiller commemoration addresses of 1859""; ""Standard Afrikaans and the different faces of �Pure� Afrikaans in the twentieth century""; ""Reimagining the Nation: Discourses of language purism in Luxembourg""; ""III. Modern Society and Purism""; ""On the role of language ideologies in linguistic theory and practice: purism and beyond""
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""Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard French""""V. Linguists and Purism""; ""“Caution is not always the better part of valour� � Purism in the historiography of the German language""; ""Some effects of purist ideologies on historical descriptions of English""; ""Usefulness and uselessness of the term Fremdwort""; ""Index""
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