10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESCRIPTIVISM»
Discover the use of
prescriptivism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prescriptivism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Perspectives on
Prescriptivism
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.
Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera, Massimo Sturiale, 2008
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The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of ...
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade examines the life and work, as well as the language, of Robert Lowth (1710-1787), reputed founder of the grammatical prescriptivism greatly deprecated by modern linguists and educational theorists.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, 2011
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The Role of
Prescriptivism in American Linguistics, 1820-1970
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PRESCRIPTIVISM The linguistic thought of Americans
has long been marked by a concern for 'correctness'. Americans have sought in
their language behavior to enforce a uniformity and conformity to some absolute
...
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Fixing English:
Prescriptivism and Language History
Anne Curzan presents a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon.
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The Subjunctive in the Age of
Prescriptivism: English and ...
The main topic of the monograph is the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German during the eighteenth century.
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The Handbook of the History of English
21. Eighteenth-century. Prescriptivism. and. the. Norm. of. Correctness. INGRID.
TIEKEN-BOON. VAN. OSTADE. 21.1. Introduction. In The Grammatical Art
Improved: In Which the Errors of Grammarians and Lexicographers Are Exposed
(1795) ...
Ans van Kemenade, Bettelou Los, 2009
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Language Alive in the Classroom
Rethinking. Prescriptivism. John. Myhill. In the English-speaking world, and
indeed in most languages throughout the world, the overwhelming majority of
choices concerning which form is declared to be prescriptively "correct" and
which is ...
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Ethics: Contemporary Readings
Contemporary Readings Harry J. Gensler, Earl W. Spurgin, James Swindal.
PART II FURTHER APPROACHES TO MORALITY: INTUITIONISM, EMOTIVISM,
AND PRESCRIPTIVISM G. E. MOORE Irreducible Ethical Truths G. E. Moore, a
PART ...
Harry J. Gensler, Earl W. Spurgin, James Swindal, 2004
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The Order of Public Reason: A Theory of Freedom and Morality ...
Still, the advocate of the first-personal account of moral judgment may insist that
the imperatival view of social morality simply cannot be correct. Indeed,
sometimes when I have remarked on the value of Hare's prescriptivism, listeners
have ...
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Introducing Sociolinguistics
James Milroy and Lesley Milroy (1985) locate the origins of prescriptivism in what
they call 'the Complaint Tradition', that is, a long-standing tradition of complaints
about the adequacy of the English language compared to others. French had ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESCRIPTIVISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
prescriptivism is used in the context of the following news items.
When Should You Use Come vs. Cum? It Depends What Kind of …
So, while Lexicon Valley eschews prescriptivism as a rule, it seems wise, just this once, to spray-paint some lines on the soccer field. Here are ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
Re: An open letter to grammar police and A defense of strict …
The recent discourse in the Technician surrounding the issue of language prescriptivism is an excellent platform for a teachable moment and a ... «N.C. State University Technician Online, Jul 15»
And yet it moves
But my eminent colleague @Mededitor has brought to my attention a student column defending prescriptivism that is too ripe to be ignored. «Baltimore Sun, Jun 15»
3 Questionable Pieces Of Dating Advice From Aziz Ansari's 'Modern …
Aziz doesn't position this as an advice book, either, but there's no avoiding a certain degree of prescriptivism when it comes to analyzing what ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
Paperback book reviews including Simple English by Simon Heffer …
Grammarians may take a descriptive or a prescriptive approach to their subject; but few take prescriptivism quite as far as Simon Heffer in this ... «The Independent, May 15»
Second-class education: Why the system needs to change
Simple changes to national curricula and teaching practice, and a reduction in government-enforced prescriptivism, could change the tide of ... «Varsity Online, May 15»
Henri de Lubac's fascinating notes on Vatican II
Interestingly, some of the world's best theologians from the 1930s through the 1950s began to see quite clearly that this prescriptivism was ... «Catholic Culture, May 15»
Unsentimental Education
There's no clear unifying thread among all of this, and considering McCarthy's anti-prescriptivism, it seems safe to say that there isn't meant to ... «Brooklyn Rail, Apr 15»
To Space or Not to Space
My own sense is that prescriptivism in punctuation is received less kindly, in general, than prescriptivism in grammar. Deny as we might that ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 15»
Is painting dead?
But in recent decades, as painting has thrown off the yoke of avant-garde prescriptivism, figurative painting has been on a noted upswing. «BBC News, Feb 15»
