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A prescriptivism with moral and political ends: The linguistic shalts and shalt nots I can get behind

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 3 Comments

In the field of linguistics, we tend to make a distinction between two ways of thinking about language and grammar: prescriptivism and descriptivism.

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Posted in Ideology and social change, Prescriptivism and language prejudice

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