‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain

Most introductory textbooks on linguistics make a point of highlighting the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive approaches to the study of language: ‘linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive” has long been a mantra. Although this is the consensus amongst professional linguists1, pre...

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Autore principale: BEAL, Joan C.
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: E-rea 2018
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