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The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania - Faculty of Foreign Languages - in Ragusa. Until very recently, the received view among linguists was that prescriptivism was a 'bad thing', something only worth considering in order to condemn it as a product of unenlightened thinking. The organisers wished to encourage participants to look at linguistic prescriptivism from a wide range of perspectives. Some of the main questions asked were: To what extent is the concept of prescriptivism to be considered a typical product of the 18th century? What is the attitude of 21st-century scholars and language guardians towards linguistic 'correctness'? 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.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics

• Full title: Perspectives on Prescriptivism
• Author: Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera, Massimo Sturiale
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278
• EAN: 9783039116324
• ISBN: 9783039116324
• ID: 10026147
• Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 225 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2008

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