Psychological Determinants of Linguistic Purism: National Identification, Conservatism, and Attitudes to Loanwords
- Aversion to loanwords may express itself in various ways: deliberate and motivated by ideology of linguistic purism or more implicit and motivated by the strength of one’s national identification and ethnolinguistic vitality. A study of Polish philology students assessed their tendency to choose loanwords versus synonymous native words. The results supported a two-path model of linguistic purism. Social identity (strength of identification) directly predicted avoidance of loanwords, whereas ideological concerns (conservative political views) predicted it indirectly, through purist ideology.
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| Author: | Karolina HansenORCiDGND, Michał Wypych, Mirosław BańkoGND, Michał BilewiczGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-89938 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X17737810 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6526 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Language and Social Psychology |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/06/26 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | language attitudes; lexical loans; linguistic borrowings; nationalistic purism; political views |
| GND Keyword: | Lehnwort; Nationalismus; Politische Einstellung; Sprachpurismus |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 365 |
| Last Page: | 375 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Sprachpolitik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |