Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian
The article sets out to draw a very brief comparison of the common features shared by the purist attitudes displayed by two 19th-century English and Romanian scholars, William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian and classifies them according to the set of criteria devised by Thomas (1991). The paper...
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| description | The article sets out to draw a very brief comparison of the common features shared by the purist attitudes displayed by two 19th-century English and Romanian scholars, William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian and classifies them according to the set of criteria devised by Thomas (1991). The paper also goes over several concepts regarding purism. The author of the paper analyses the concept of purism in both countries within the intellectual and temporal dimensions of purism.
William Barnes was a Victorian reformer, a polymath, a priest, a poet in his Dorset dialect and a utopian prescriptivist linguist capitalizing on the Germanic word stock of English and suggesting the removal of excessive Latin & Greek vocabulary. He wrote several linguistic books and poetry. August Treboniu Laurian was an outstanding Romanian reformer and polymath. He penned a theoretical book heralding his reformist belief: “Tentamen Criticum”, in 1840 and a huge Dictionary of the Romanian language in 1876 (after a seven year work) capitalising on the Latin word stock of Romanian and suggesting the removal of non-Latin lexemes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b8e4afb5ba74807984434b8d94df1cf2023-07-25T12:18:55ZengCentre for Languages and Literature, Lund UniversitySwedish Journal of Romanian Studies2003-09242023-05-0161216228https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v6i1.25003Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu LaurianSorin Ciutacu0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6742-2708West University of TimisoaraThe article sets out to draw a very brief comparison of the common features shared by the purist attitudes displayed by two 19th-century English and Romanian scholars, William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian and classifies them according to the set of criteria devised by Thomas (1991). The paper also goes over several concepts regarding purism. The author of the paper analyses the concept of purism in both countries within the intellectual and temporal dimensions of purism. William Barnes was a Victorian reformer, a polymath, a priest, a poet in his Dorset dialect and a utopian prescriptivist linguist capitalizing on the Germanic word stock of English and suggesting the removal of excessive Latin & Greek vocabulary. He wrote several linguistic books and poetry. August Treboniu Laurian was an outstanding Romanian reformer and polymath. He penned a theoretical book heralding his reformist belief: “Tentamen Criticum”, in 1840 and a huge Dictionary of the Romanian language in 1876 (after a seven year work) capitalising on the Latin word stock of Romanian and suggesting the removal of non-Latin lexemes.https://journals.lub.lu.se/sjrs/article/view/25003purism typeswilliam barnesaugust treboniu lauriansaxon/ germaniclatin |
| spellingShingle | Sorin Ciutacu Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies purism types william barnes august treboniu laurian saxon/ germanic latin |
| title | Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian |
| title_full | Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian |
| title_fullStr | Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian |
| title_full_unstemmed | Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian |
| title_short | Language purism in the mirror. William Barnes and August Treboniu Laurian |
| title_sort | language purism in the mirror william barnes and august treboniu laurian |
| topic | purism types william barnes august treboniu laurian saxon/ germanic latin |
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