Perspectives on Prescriptivism

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039116320
• ISBN13: 9783039116324
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"