- have
based their norms on
observed prestige use of language.
Modern prescriptivist textbooks[which?] draw
heavily on
descriptive linguistic analysis. The...
- Skitt, a
contributor to alt.usage.english on Usenet. Hartman's law of
prescriptivist retaliation: "Any
article or
statement about correct grammar, punctuation...
- this
section is tied to
reliable sources, and there's a
great deal of
prescriptivist punditry about "codification" of
various "rules".
Please improve it...
-
Shall and will are two of the
English modal verbs. They have
various uses,
including the
expression of
propositions about the ****ure, in what is usually...
- distinctions, many feel that
linguistics should restrain itself from such
prescriptivist judgments to
avoid reinforcing dominant class value claims about what...
- the language, and that the
prescriptivist has an
idiosyncratic view of
correct usage.
Particularly in
older prescriptivist works,
recommendations may...
-
Prescriptivism may
refer to:
Linguistic prescriptivism,
preference for
prescribing rules of
language Universal prescriptivism, a meta-ethical
theory of...
-
Criticism of
Strunk &
White has
largely focused on
claims that it has a
prescriptivist nature, or that it has
become a
general anachronism in the face of modern...
- to
express one's
personal feelings or attitudes. To
illustrate the
prescriptivist view,
consider the
moral sentence, “Suicide is wrong.”
According to...
-
grammar about the
appropriate use of
these two determiners.
Linguistic prescriptivists usually say that
fewer and not less
should be used with
countable nouns...
