Botheration and Recognition of Prescriptive Rules

Passions flare up around the use and “misuse” of prescriptive rules. Where there is variation in language use, language judgment usually follows—attaching value judgment to linguistic variants forms the foundation of prescriptive ideology in English. Prescriptive attitudes prevail among speakers an...

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Main Author: Smith, Sara D
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2015
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5582
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6581&context=etd