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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"prescriptivism"”.
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Dynamics of prescriptivism and lexical borrowings in Contemporary French
In France and Québec, language contact with English is often perceived as a source of negative influence on French. Terminological commissions working under the supervision of the Académie française and the Office québécois de la langue française are tasked to replace foreign words and expressions …
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Language purism and prescriptivism in an African context : a case study of a siSwati radio programme 'Nasi-ke siSwati'
The study aims at assessing purists' and prescriptivists' concerns about language as reported in Western and non-Western settings, as to find out whether they share the same views about language correctness. The data base is a series of a siSwati radio programme, called Nasi-ke siSwati 'Here is …
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An Alternative to Prescriptivism: An Inquiry Into the Elements of Legal Systems, Analyzing Logical Properties, Functions, and Correlations of Legal Norms and Legal Concepts
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:28:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004271.pdf: 15322950 bytes, checksum: 7f2b8f7635d4c2f66581b7c4e7effb00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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EnsleyEdits: Creating a Style Resource for Professional Writers
… of existing style references through the lens of prescriptivism and descriptivism, and assessing the gaps of current online style resources demonstrate how a new online style resource hosted on Instagram, <em>EnsleyEdits</em>, can meet this need for professional writers. Research on current social …
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(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
… of representation, linguistic and cultural prescriptivism, and the impact of colonizing theories of languages and cultures on heritage language students.
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On The Social Control Of Science
… methodologies oscillate between the poles of prescriptivism and descriptivism. Descriptive methodologies can only paint pictures of how science is done. They may discover that external control is seldom found in research, but they must prescind from any evaluation of such findings. Only a …
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Joseph Priestley and the French Connection: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Grammaticography.
… or a ‘descriptive’ counterpart to the perceived ‘prescriptivism’ of Lowth’s approach to grammar. The central aim of this thesis is to challenge these narratives by providing new insights into the evolution of Priestley’s thinking and practice as a grammar writer. I identify key factors shaping …
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Local language policy: shifting scales in the English-only movement
… opens up the worlds of policymaking, prescriptivism, and English-only activism to more situated, discursive analysis, and the field of writing studies to a kind of writing that has significantly shaped American identity, education, and citizenship.
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What the Debate about Spanish Gender-Inclusive Forms Reveals Regarding Ideological Beliefs about Language and Authority
<p>The “masculine generic” is a feature of Spanish that dictates that the masculine ending, (-o), is generally used as the default when referring to a mixed-sex group or when the sex of a person or group is unknown. Critics have claimed that this linguistic feature is sexist and contributes to the …
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The New Voseo Culto: An Exploration of the Complexity of Familiar Address in Chilean Spanish
In Chilean Spanish, second-person address is non-uniform in that the vos competes with the conventional tuteo and a third, mixed form has emerged. To add to this complexity, the form speakers choose has been shown to correspond to socioeconomic strata. Upper classes use tú, lower classes use vos, …