prescriptivism

How To Use prescriptivism In A Sentence

• Another influential kind of noncognitivism called “prescriptivism” claims that this sentence is really a veiled command whose true meaning should be captured using the imperative mood: “Don't steal!” Moral Anti-Realism
• Think of it this way: a good copy-editor working on a novel written in Scots dialect can apply prescriptivism and correct it into Standard English. More on Critique
• * And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"? Languagehat.com: REALLY MISPLACED.
• So prescriptivism of some sort could be thought of as analogous to conservationism .... Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
• This paper attempts to illustrate the important role of costume in the whole opera performance from three aspects—symbolism, prescriptivism, and the nature of dance.
• It's a bizarre tale about the passions stirred by what its critics saw as the dangerous shift, in the early 1960s, from prescriptivism to descriptivism in America's most authoritative dictionary.
• Actually, there is an alternative reading in which this modality can be read as honest prescriptivism, if we take “must” as a deontic rather than epistemic modality — the “must” of social obligation rather than theoretical possibility. The Assumption of Authority 2
• It does not exclude prescriptivism as a potential strategy, does not say that the presence of prescriptivism renders critique “no longer critique” — which would indeed be a prescriptivist strategy, a (re) definition of critique that prescribes a limit, paradoxically setting prescriptivism outwith that limit. There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism
• Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”. Archive 2009-06-01
• Under varying names - emotivism, prescriptivism, constructivism, irrealism, quasi-realism, or expressivism - they have embraced some form of ethical subjectivism or scepticism. The Times Literary Supplement