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Do descriptivists differ from prescriptivists in how, or whether, they determine correctness?
Do descriptivists differ from prescriptivists in how they determine whether something is correct? Or do they differ in whether or not they determine whether something is correct?
For example, if 80% ...
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Does anyone criticize descriptivism as heavily as prescriptivism?
This question concerns the reasons why prescriptivism is criticized. I know of these criticisms because I hold them myself. However, I have a question about the opposite side, and that is, do any ...
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What is exactly “descriptivism”?
I think I understand that as a field, linguistics tries to study how people actually use language, rather than say how people should. It seems to me, a layperson, that several linguists writing for ...
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Why is prescriptivism criticized?
Several linguists criticize prescriptivism. Stephen Pinker is probably the one to have made the strongest case against it. But, is their criticism based on a methodological principle (the abstraction ...
