{"product_id":"perspectives-on-prescriptivism","title":"Perspectives on Prescriptivism","description":"The 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.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224336585048,"sku":"9783039116324","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783039116324_b7666858-d694-4318-ab88-01fdd9e2dd6d.jpg?v=1777087874","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/perspectives-on-prescriptivism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}