Attitudes towards Language
- Created by: Nicole Anna Morrison
- Created on: 16-12-18 17:12
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- Attitudes towards Language
- Descriptive +
- Language needs to evolve and adapt
- Describes how it's used today
- Mckinnon
- Tendancy to think of language in a series of binary oppositions
- Good or Bad/Correct or Incorrect/
- Proscriptive
- Ascribe rules
- Tell you how to speak
- Prescriptive -
- Language change should be prevented
- We need to preserve and protect the English language
- Descriptive +
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