Perspectives on Prescriptivism Paperback / softback
Edited by Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera, Massimo Sturiale
Part of the Linguistic Insights series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:278 pages
- Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication Date:30/04/2008
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- ISBN:9783039116324
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:278 pages
- Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication Date:30/04/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9783039116324
