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Prescriptivism may
refer to:
Linguistic prescriptivism, the
practice of
laying down
norms for
language usage Universal prescriptivism, a meta-ethical theory...
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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...
- 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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between two predicates.
According to the view of many English-language
prescriptivists,
including influential 18th-century
grammarian Robert Lowth, than is...
- emotivism,
developed by R. M. Hare, is
called universal prescriptivism.
Prescriptivists interpret ethical statements as
being universal imperatives, prescribing...
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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...
- this
section is tied to
reliable sources, and there's a
great deal of
prescriptivist punditry about "codification" of
various "rules".
Please improve it...
- as a
plural for
octopus (the
standard English plural is octopuses).
Prescriptivists consider these forms incorrect, but
descriptivists may
simply describe...
- distinctions, many feel that
linguistics should restrain itself from such
prescriptivist judgments to
avoid reinforcing dominant class value claims about what...
- acceptable. The
Cambridge Grammar of the
English Language discusses the
prescriptivist argument that they is a
plural pronoun and that the use of they with...
