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Perspectives on Prescriptivism

By: Carmela Nocera (Editor), Massimo Sturiale (Editor), Joan C. Beal (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 April 2008

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278 Pages

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The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania â" Faculty of Foreign Languages â" in Ragusa. Until very recently, the received view among linguists was that prescriptivism was a âbad thingâ, 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 âcorrectnessâ? To what extent were books more prescriptive â" rather than descriptive â" in what has generally been described as âthe age of correctnessâ? Some of the answers are to be found in this volume.

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