HyperDic: prescriptive_linguistics

English > 1 sense of the expression prescriptive linguistics:
NOUNcognitionprescriptive linguisticsan account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used
English > prescriptive linguistics: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningAn account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the 'correct' phonology and morphology / morphology and syntax / syntax and semantics.
BroaderlinguisticsThe scientific study of language
Oppositedescriptive linguisticsA description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology / morphology and syntax / syntax and semantics without value judgments

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