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 Translation for 'Purism' from English to Russian
NOUN   purism | -
пуризм {м}purism
иск.
пуризм {м}
Purism
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Translation for 'Purism' from English to Russian

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purism
пуризм {м}
Purism
пуризм {м}иск.
Usage Examples English
  • There is a tradition of linguistic purism in Icelandic, and neologisms are frequently created from pre-existing words.
  • Toporišič was often criticized for linguistic purism.
  • The Czechoslovak Hussite church was built in 1928. It represents interwar architecture influenced by purism and constructivism.
  • Its use as a disjunct has prompted controversy among advocates of linguistic purism or linguistic prescription.
  • Because of linguistic purism and its orientation towards the pre-Islamic past, advocates for pure Hindi have sought to remove many Persian, Arabic, and Turkic loanwords and replaced them with borrowings from Sanskrit.

  • The typical methods of language reform are simplification and linguistic purism.
  • Another source of synonyms is coinages, which may be motivated by linguistic purism.
  • Linguistic purism or linguistic protectionism is the prescriptive practice of defining or recognizing one variety of a language as being purer or of intrinsically higher quality than other varieties.
  • His work was influenced by purism and by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • In "The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot and Left" (Oxford University Press 2006), linguist David Crystal analyses the linguistic purism of Truss and other writers through the ages.

  • There are many Meitei language movements, including classical language movement (predominantly in Manipur), associate official language movement (in Assam), linguistic purism movement (predominantly in Manipur), etc.
  • In final issue of "L'élan", published December 1916, Ozenfant writes: "Le Cubisme est un movement de purism" (Cubism is a movement of purism).
  • Evžen Linhart (20 March 1898, Kouřim – 29 December 1949, Prague) otherwise known as Eugen Linhart was a Czech architect and designer of furniture, exponent of Czech functionalism and purism.
  • At the time, extreme forms of purism were advocated by nationalist-minded linguists who were in turn described by Radoslav Katičić as "marginal elements".
  • In the late 18th century, language purism began to gain noticeable ground in Iceland and since the early 19th century it has been the linguistic policy of the country (see linguistic purism in Icelandic).

  • As a linguist, Vladimir Anić was a staunch descriptivist; he saw his dictionary as "not a book of best words, but a book of all words", and stressed the need for language creativity and freedom as a counterweight against purism.
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