Linguistic Purism CHARLENE ROCKWELL Language Is an organism

Linguistic Purism CHARLENE ROCKWELL

Language Is… … an organism. … a tool.

Linguistic Purism – Definitions “Linguistic purism or linguistic protectionism is the practice of defining or recognizing one variety of a language as being purer or of intrinsically higher quality than other varieties. ” (“Linguistic Purism, ” n. d. ) “A purist (or grammaticaster) is someone who expresses a desire to eliminate certain undesirable features from a language, including grammatical errors, jargon, neologisms, colloquialisms, and words of foreign origin. ” (Nordquist, 2018)

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The Results • Adoption of purist viewpoint towards the language, leading to identity issues • Sharp decline in risk-taking during language learning Bilingual

Linguistic Influences on English • • • Latin (29%) French (29%) Germanic (26%) Greek (6%) Other (6%) Derived from proper names (4%) (“Foreign language influences in English, ” 2018)

English Linguistic Purism (A Brief History) • Inkhorn term controversy (16 th-17 th centuries) • Advocated by Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy (19 th century) • Attempt to make English more accessible without classical education by William Barnes (19 th century) • Supported by George Orwell (20 th century) • The term “Anglish” coined by humourist Paul Jennings (1966)

Anglish - A Test Wordstock Vocabulary Speechcraft Grammar Tokenmark Punctuation Quide Swoteling Linguistic Purism Throughseeking Research Whitenorth Canada

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• Decreased motivation • Less risk-taking • Identity issues • Discrimination Learner Implications • Greater difficulties in higher education

Academic Writing

• Context is key • “Wrong” Inappropriate • Addressing style and register early Practitioner Implications • Awareness of other Englishes • Reassessing assessments

• Who establishes the rules? • Who enforces the rules? • Who is permitted to break the rules? • How does purism succeed? How does it fail?

References Foreign language influences in English. (2018, March 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https: //en. wikipedia. org/w/index. php? title=Foreign_language_influences _in_English&oldid=829094086 Linguistic Purism. (n. d. ). In World Heritage Encyclopedia online. Retrieved from http: //www. worldheritage. org/articles/Linguistic_purism Nordquist, Richard. (2018, April 4). Definition and Examples of Linguistic Purism. Retrieved from https: //www. thoughtco. com/purism-language 1691704 Star Wyes. (n. d). Retreived May 10, 2018 from The Anglish Moot: http: //anglish. wikia. com/wiki/Star_Wyes