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Meaning of "descriptivist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESCRIPTIVIST

descriptivist  [dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESCRIPTIVIST

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Descriptivist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESCRIPTIVIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

descriptivist

Linguistic description

In the study of language, description, or descriptive linguistics, is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is spoken by a group of people in a speech community. All scholarly research in linguistics is descriptive; like all other sciences, its aim is to observe the linguistic world as it is, without the bias of preconceived ideas about how it ought to be. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on a structural approach to language, as exemplified in the work of Leonard Bloomfield and others. Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, which is found especially in education and in publishing. Prescription seeks to define standard language forms and give advice on effective language use, and can be thought of as a presentation of the fruits of descriptive research in a learnable form, though it also draws on more subjective aspects of language aesthetics. Prescription and description are complementary, but have different priorities and sometimes are seen to be in conflict. Descriptivism is the belief that description is more significant or important to teach, study, and practice than prescription.

Definition of descriptivist in the English dictionary

The definition of descriptivist in the dictionary is a person who believes in the theory that moral utterances have a truth value. Other definition of descriptivist is a person who believes in and supports descriptive linguistics.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESCRIPTIVIST


activist
ˈæktɪvɪst
archivist
ˈɑːkɪvɪst
collectivist
kəˈlɛktɪvɪst
constructivist
kənˈstrʌktɪvɪst
destructivist
dɪˈstrʌktɪvɪst
detectivist
dɪˈtɛktɪvɪst
exclusivist
ɪkˈskluːsɪvɪst
hacktivist
ˈhæktɪvɪst
lactivist
ˈlæktɪvɪst
nativist
ˈneɪtɪvɪst
negativist
ˈnɛɡətɪvɪst
nonobjectivist
ˌnɒnəbˈdʒektɪvɪst
objectivist
əbˈdʒektɪvɪst
perspectivist
pəˈspɛktɪvɪst
positivist
ˈpɒzɪtɪvɪst
prescriptivist
prɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst
progressivist
prəˈɡresɪvɪst
recidivist
rɪˈsɪdɪvɪst
relativist
ˈrelətɪvɪst
slacktivist
ˈslæktɪvɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESCRIPTIVIST

descrambler
describable
describe
describer
descried
descrier
descries
description
descriptive
descriptive geometry
descriptive linguistics
descriptive metaphysics
descriptive notation
descriptive statistics
descriptively
descriptiveness
descriptivism
descriptor
descrive
descry

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESCRIPTIVIST

atavist
Bolshevist
comparativist
Fauvist
human rights activist
Jahvist
Jehovist
Lagerkvist
logical positivist
Menshevist
naivist
ovist
passivist
peace activist
primitivist
reservist
subjectivist
Yahvist

Synonyms and antonyms of descriptivist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «descriptivist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESCRIPTIVIST

Find out the translation of descriptivist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of descriptivist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «descriptivist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

descriptivist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descriptivistas
570 millions of speakers

English

descriptivist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

descriptivist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

descriptivist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

descriptivist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

descritivista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্ণনামূলক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

descriptiviste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Deskriptivis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

descriptivist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

descriptivist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

descriptivist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Descriptivist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

descriptivist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

descriptivist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्णनकर्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

descriptivist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

descrittivista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

descriptivist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

descriptivist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

descriptivistă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

descriptivist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

descriptivist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

descriptivist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

descriptivist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of descriptivist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCRIPTIVIST»

The term «descriptivist» is used very little and occupies the 172.750 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCRIPTIVIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about descriptivist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCRIPTIVIST»

Discover the use of descriptivist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to descriptivist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Singular Reference: A Descriptivist Perspective: A ...
This book explains in detail (mainly for newcomers) why anti-descriptivism became dominant in spite of its weaknesses and (for experts) how these weaknesses can be overcome by appropriately reviving descriptivism.
Francesco Orilia, 2009
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Wittgensteinian values: philosophy, religious belief and ...
This work examines the self-renouncing dimension which Wittgensteinian philosophy subscribes to ethico-religious ideals.
Emyr Vaughan Thomas, 2001
3
Pragmatism and Reference
1. The. Descriptivist/Cluster. Account. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so ...
David Boersema
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Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity: Names, Necessity, ...
The pure descriptivist about geometrical sortals would respond that the right sort of geometrical structure is just the sort of geometrical structure built into the concept square and the purely qualitative (reductive) analytic definiens of 'square '.74) ...
Christopher Hughes, 2004
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Schools of Linguistics
I use the term 'Descriptivist linguistics' for the school founded by Boas, for reasons that will be discussed shortly. Since, throughout the twentieth century, the great majority of synchronic linguists have been Americans, it has often seemed that ...
Geoffrey Sampson, 1980
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Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism
Although everyone recognizes the need to take into account the observations and arguments of Kripke and his fellow anti-descriptivists, there are some who believe that the traditional descriptivist paradigm contained much that was correct , ...
Scott Soames, 2009
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Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality
It is a version of the point I made in §8 to say that this seems unrecognizable as a picture of the mind's directedness towards external objects; and, with the assumption in place, that can seem to necessitate staying with the descriptivist view of ...
John Henry McDowell, 1998
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Analytic Philosophy of Religion
HYBRID THEORIES OF REFERENCE Clearly, neither a straightforward descriptivist or causal theory of reference will do for Hick's purposes. Peter Byrne has attempted to "reconstruct" reference in a way that will accommodate religious  ...
James Franklin Harris, 2002
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The Philosophical Inquiry: Towards a Global Account
I'm not making a proposal. My whole approach is intended as descriptivist: I will try to rescue the most general scholarly meaning of the world 'science' by making explicit the criteria scientists and educated men usually use to identify science.
Claudio Ferreira Costa, 2002
10
Descriptivist Theory of Names
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Descriptivist theory of names is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESCRIPTIVIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term descriptivist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Is Language Now Meaningless? A Ruling in the Matter of Scalia v …
... golf”—presuppose a language capable of generating new and essentially comprehensible elements, relative to the descriptivist provision in ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
2
No thanx, say Scrabble traditionalists
Not only is that argument essentially descriptivist, but it also lends legitimacy to the sources of the new Scrabble words: Twitter, text messages, ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jun 15»
3
Additions to Scrabble dictionary make a point about language
Not only is that argument essentially descriptivist, it also lends legitimacy to the sources of the new Scrabble words: Twitter, text messages, etc. «The Providence Journal, Jun 15»
4
Ridic? Obvs, LOLZ!
Not only is that argument essentially descriptivist, it also lends legitimacy to the sources of the new Scrabble words: Twitter, text messages, etc. «Winnipeg Free Press, May 15»
5
Scrabble purists say no thanx to new words
Not only is that argument essentially descriptivist, it also lends legitimacy to the sources of the new Scrabble words: Twitter, text messages, etc. «Toronto Star, May 15»
6
GALLERY: Twenty-four new words recently added to the Urban …
That's how we end up with so many portmanteaux, or blends as contemporary descriptivist linguists refer to them. The most well known are the ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Apr 15»
7
Managing the Decline of, Like, a Great Language
Descriptivist grammarians—those who reject the idea of right and wrong uses of language—won't be much help. They don't sprinkle their own ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
8
Grammar Geekery With Bill Walsh (April)
I have a prescriptivist's soul, but a descriptivist's sense of realpolitik. A: Bill Walsh. I'm clinging to the traditional view, but with a twist. I tend to ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
9
Panic at the Dictionary
Grouse about “imply” and “infer” all you want, but Gove's descriptivist style has triumphed over Macdonald's prescriptivist desires. It's standard ... «The New Yorker, Jan 15»
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Descriptivism, prescriptivism, and assertionism — here, as to …
Ah, you say, but those are Evil Modern Descriptivist Dictionaries. Very well, let's look in the Good Old-Fashioned Dictionaries, such as the 1913 ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»

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