{"product_id":"language-purification-attempts-during-the-german-empire-the-allgemeiner-deutscher-sprachverein-von-silja-ruebsamen","title":"Language Purification Attempts during the German Empire: The \"Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The year 1871 brought Germany a victory over France, concluding the Franco-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrussian War, and ended with the founding of the ¿Deutsches Reich¿, the German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmpire. As a result of the nationalistic elation felt all through society Herman Riegel,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emuseum curator and art historian in Mannheim, published his Ein Hauptstück von\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunserer Mutterprache, a text that established him as the foremost agitator in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewidespread campaign against the adoption of foreign words into the German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elanguage. Riegel then called for the formation of a German language association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponsible for the purification of the German dictionary from words borrowed from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother languages, most notably French, and occasionally English. In 1885, supported\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby similar-minded academics and politicians nationwide such als gymnasium\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprofessor Hermann Dunger, Riegel presided over the establisment of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein,¿ the universal German Language Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(ADSV). It¿s objectives were laid down as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Projects advancing the purification of the German language, cleansing it from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿unneccessary foreign particles¿,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Preservation and renovation of ¿the real spirit und unique character¿ of the German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elanguage,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Strengthening the ¿general and overall national awareness¿ of all Germans, not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonly concerning language, but also concerning ¿German-ness¿ in general. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe following essay will concentrate on the main ADSV projects from 1885 until the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estart of the First World War in 1914, on its project successes and failures, especially concerning the incorporation of foreign words via translation, and on the inevitability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof massive problems during the transferral of general linguistic principles into the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elanguage actually used outside academic circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656106784\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656106784","offer_id":39432494481501,"sku":"9783656106784","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/1f09764d-1c91-44dd-bfbc-9c504f802f8a.jpg?v=1777869587","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/language-purification-attempts-during-the-german-empire-the-allgemeiner-deutscher-sprachverein-von-silja-ruebsamen","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}