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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The support or promotion of prescriptive grammar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage.
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- noun linguistics
prescribing idealisticnorms , as opposed to describing realisticforms , of linguistic usage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics
- noun (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior
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Examples
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I consider this, and other such reactions, hard evidence that prejudicial prescriptivism is pressured for by prejudiced audiences.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009
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Where it succeeds in establishing itself thus, (often because the prescriptivism is pandering to a pre-existing and widespread moral/prejudicial attitude to a scapegoat group within society,) as the default paradigm it propagates.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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It asserts that prescriptivism is there, and that it is of dubious worth and demonstrable detriment.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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In other words, the sticking point on your rejection of prescriptivism is that it defines the notion of right and wrong as invalid, instead of answering the hard questions of knowing right and wrong.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009
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It asserts that prescriptivism is there, and that it is of dubious worth and demonstrable detriment.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009
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I consider this, and other such reactions, hard evidence that prejudicial prescriptivism is pressured for by prejudiced audiences.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The psychology of prescriptivism is likely very similar to the psychology of racism or spiritualism or conservatism/progressivism.
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A very large chunk of prescriptivism is indeed based on acceptance of language judgments that you encounter early in life.
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However, it does offer evidence for the suspicion that one appeal of prescriptivism is a kind of sentimental conservatism — the desire to feel as though one is preserving tradition.
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Where it succeeds in establishing itself thus, (often because the prescriptivism is pandering to a pre-existing and widespread moral/prejudicial attitude to a scapegoat group within society,) as the default paradigm it propagates.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009
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