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PERSPECTIVES ON PRESCRIPTIVISM KARTONIERT (TB)

The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (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.

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