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Perspectives on Prescriptivism

Perspectives on Prescriptivism

Nocera, Carmela
Sturiale, Massimo
Gotti, Maurizio

Paperback

Series: Linguistic Insights, Book 73

Literary CriticismGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3039116320
ISBN13: 9783039116324
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Apr 30 2008
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania - Faculty of Foreign Languages - in Ragusa. Until very recently, the received view among linguists was that prescriptivism was a 'bad thing', something only worth considering in order to condemn it as a product of unenlightened thinking. The organisers wished to encourage participants to look at linguistic prescriptivism from a wide range of perspectives. Some of the main questions asked were: To what extent is the concept of prescriptivism to be considered a typical product of the 18th century? What is the attitude of 21st-century scholars and language guardians towards linguistic 'correctness'? To what extent were books more prescriptive - rather than descriptive - in what has generally been described as 'the age of correctness'? Some of the answers are to be found in this volume.

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