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Douglas A. Kibbee, Alan Craig
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
We define prescription as any intervention in the way another person speaks. Long excluded from linguistics as unscientific, prescription is in fact a natural part of linguistic behavior. We seek to understand the logic and method of prescriptivism through the study of usage manuals: their authors, sources and audience; their social context; the categories of "errors"targeted; the justification for correction; the phrasing of prescription; the relationship between demonstrated usage and the usage prescribed; the effect of the prescription. Our corpus is a collection of about 30 usage manuals in the French tradition. Eventually we hope to create a database permitting easy comparison of these features.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 67-81 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Histoire Epistemologie Langage |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review