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Prescriptivism may
refer to:
Linguistic prescriptivism,
preference for
prescribing rules of
language Universal prescriptivism, a meta-ethical
theory of...
- insecurity.
Propagating such
language attitudes is
characteristic of the
prescriptivists in
Eastern Europe,
where normativist ideas of
correctness can be found...
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prescriptivists prescribe the rule
addition that less
should be used with
units of
measurement (e.g. "less than 10 pounds/dollars").
Prescriptivists might...
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emotive meanings, but
these are not
their primary meanings according to
prescriptivists.
Prescriptivism has
faced extensive criticism and
currently has few...
- emotivism,
developed by R. M. Hare, is
called universal prescriptivism.
Prescriptivists interpret ethical statements as
being universal imperatives, prescribing...
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Prescriptivists consider these forms incorrect, but
descriptivists may
simply describe them as a
natural evolution of language; some
prescriptivists do...
- Skitt, a
contributor to alt.usage.english on Usenet. Hartman's law of
prescriptivist retaliation: "Any
article or
statement about correct grammar, punctuation...
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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...
- codified, and
advocated by
certain phoneticians and teachers,
linguistic prescriptivists who felt that it was the best or most
proper way to
speak English....
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double in the next ten years." In the 19th century, some
linguistic prescriptivists sought to
disallow the
split infinitive, and the
resulting conflict...
