Front matter -- The texture of language purism: an introduction / Jernudd, Björn Η. -- A political approach to language purism / Shapiro, Michael J. -- The politics of purity and exclusion: literary and linguistic movements of political empowerment in America, Africa, the South Pacific, and Europe / Henningsen, Manfred -- Francophonie: purism at the international level / Weinstein, Brian -- Language reform movement and its language the case of Persian / Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad -- Purism and correctness in the Bengali speech community / Musa, Monsur -- Language purism in Korea today / Park, Nahm-Sheik -- Hieratic components in Soviet dictionaries of Yiddish, Dungan, and Belorussian / Wexler, Paul -- Linguistic scapegoating: the pure and impure of American poetry / Wilson, Rob -- Purism, language, and creativity: the Sri Lankan experience / Dissanayake, Wimal -- Purism and alienation in recent Taiwanese fiction / Hsu, Wen-Hsiung -- Language purism as a type of language correction / Neustupný, J. V. -- The linguistic and social dimensions of purism / Annamalai, E. -- Subject Index |