prescriptivist — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

   Связанные слова

   grammarian

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   The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.

Прилагательное

1. Having a tendency to prescribe.

   Синонимы

   prescriptionisticprescriptivistic

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   In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.