Vladimir Nabokov - purysta językowy / Vladimir Nabokov - a linguistic purist by Monika Grygiel

“…According to Nabokov, literary talent obliges one to linguistic purism, and true masterpieces are characterized by artistically perfect language that delights the readers.…”
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The Ideological Construction of the English Language in the French Agrégation by Adam WILSON

“…Bringing together tools from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis, I analyse a corpus of Agrégation jury reports and show how native-speakerism, national, standard language and raciolinguistic ideologies, as well as ideologies of coherence and purism, all play a role in shaping a set of ideal(ised) models of English – and thus of English speakers – in this context. …”
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