‘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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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6112 |