i-iv -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- An Introduction to Linguistic Purism -- I. Historical Prescriptivism and Purism -- Language norm and language reality. Effectiveness and limits of prescriptivism in New High German -- Taming thistles and weeds amidst the wheat: language gardening in nineteenth-century Flanders -- Bad language in Germany's past - the birth of linguistic norms in the seventeenth century? -- The revolutionary argumentative pattern in puristic discourse: The Swabian dialect in the debate about the standardization of German in the eighteenth century -- 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 -- Elements of traditional and "reverse" purism in relation to computer-mediated communication -- Once an Ossi, always an Ossi: language ideologies and social division in contemporary Germany -- IV. Folk Linguistics and Purism -- "The Grand Daddy of English": US, UK, New Zealand and Australian students' attitudes toward varieties of English -- Linguistic Purism from several perspectives: views from the "secure" and "insecure" -- Dialect and Written Language: Change in Dialect Norms in the History of the German Language -- Investigating puristic attitudes in France: Folk perceptions of variation in standard French -- V. Linguists and Purism -- "Vorsicht ist nicht immer der bessere Teil der Tapferkeit" - 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