I-VI -- The texture of language purism: an introduction -- A political approach to language purism -- The politics of purity and exclusion: literary and linguistic movements of political empowerment in America, Africa, the South Pacific, and Europe -- Francophonie: purism at the international level -- Language reform movement and its language the case of Persian -- Purism and correctness in the Bengali speech community -- Language purism in Korea today -- Hieratic components in Soviet dictionaries of Yiddish, Dungan, and Belorussian -- Linguistic scapegoating: the pure and impure of American poetry -- Purism, language, and creativity: the Sri Lankan experience -- Purism and alienation in recent Taiwanese fiction -- Language purism as a type of language correction -- The linguistic and social dimensions of purism -- Subject Index