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In this third volume of the "Online Handbook of Language Criticism - A European Perspective", linguistic purism is being understood as both criticism of language usage on the level of parole and criticism of forms and structures of a language on the level of langue. The articles in this volume illustrate in comparative perspective in which constellations of languages linguis-tic purism in German, English, French, Italian, and Croatian was relevant in the past, and still is today, how the individual languages were and are a ected by language-puristic activities, and which actors and discourses have formed and framed language-puristic activities in the di erent language cultures.

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Felder, Ekkehard
Professor für Germanistische Linguistik am Germanistischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg

Jacob, Katharina
Akademische Rätin am Germanistischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg

Busse, Beatrix
Professorin für Englische Sprachwissenschaft am Anglistischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg

Große, Sybille
Professorin für Romanische Sprachwissenschaft am Romanischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg

Gvozdanovic, Jadranka
Professorin für Slavische Philologie (Sprachwissenschaft) am Slavischen Institut der Universität Heidelberg

Radtke, Edgar
Professor für Romanische Sprachwissenschaft am Romanischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg

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