Perspectives on Prescriptivism

Name: Perspectives on Prescriptivism
Brand: Verlag Peter Lang
SKU: 9783039116324
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ISBN: 9783039116324

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Book Series Linguistic Insights

ISBN-10 3039116320

ISBN-13 9783039116324

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Publisher Verlag Peter Lang

Imprint Verlag Peter Lang

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 30th, 2008

Print length 278 Pages

Weight 386 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 22.50 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Linguistics

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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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