‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain

Most introductory textbooks on linguistics make a point of highlighting the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive approaches to the study of language: ‘linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive” has long been a mantra. Although this is the consensus amongst professional linguists1, pre...

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Main Author: Joan C. BEAL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2018-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6112
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