{"product_id":"perspectives-on-prescriptivism-9783039116324","title":"Perspectives on Prescriptivism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maurizio Gotti | Carmela Nocera | Massimo Sturiale\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colloquium \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Prescriptivism\u003c\/i\u003e (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania - Faculty of Foreign Languages - in Ragusa. Until very recently, the received view among linguists was that prescriptivism was a 'bad thing', something only worth considering in order to condemn it as a product of unenlightened thinking. The organisers wished to encourage participants to look at linguistic prescriptivism from a wide range of perspectives. Some of the main questions asked were: To what extent is the concept of prescriptivism to be considered a typical product of the 18th century? What is the attitude of 21st-century scholars and language guardians towards linguistic 'correctness'? To what extent were books more prescriptive - rather than descriptive - in what has generally been described as 'the age of correctness'? Some of the answers are to be found in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46887487045783,"sku":"9783039116324","price":8634.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783039116324.webp?v=1770256139","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/perspectives-on-prescriptivism-9783039116324","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}