Prescription and description
In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules for a language. A milder form of prescriptivism makes "recommendations" for good language useage. This is in contrast to the description of a language, which simply describes how that language is used in practice.
See also
- Descriptive linguistics
- Fowler's Modern English Usage
- Hypercorrection
- "Politics and the English Language"
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Pleonasm
- Logorrhoea
- List of English words with disputed usage
- List of frequently misused English words
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Examples of linguistic prescription |
| ► | A history of linguistic prescription in English |
| ► | Topics in English usage prescription |
| ► | See also |
| ► | References |
| ► | Additional resources |
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