prescriptivism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English prescriptive

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

English -ism

English prescriptivism

From prescriptive + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈskɹɪp.tɪ.vɪ.zm̩/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (UK, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈskɹɪp.tə.vɪ.zm̩/

Noun

prescriptivism (countable and uncountable, plural prescriptivisms)

1. (linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.

   Antonym: descriptivism

Related terms

• prescribe
• prescription
• prescriptive
• prescriptivist
• proscriptivism

Translations

prescribing idealistic language norms

• Arabic: مِعْيَارِيّة لُغَوِيَّة f (miʕyāriyya(t) luḡawiyya)
• Czech: preskriptivismus m
• Finnish: preskriptiivinen kielioppi
• French: prescriptivisme (fr) m, normativisme (fr) m
• German: Präskriptivismus m
• Hungarian: preskriptivizmus, normativizmus
• Indonesian: preskriptivisme
• Italian: prescrittivismo m
• Japanese: 規範主義 (ja) (kihanshugi)
• Latvian: preskriptīvisms
• Polish: preskryptywizm (pl) m, normatywizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: prescritivismo (pt) m, normativismo (pt) m
• Russian: прескриптивизм (ru) m (preskriptivizm)
• Serbo-Croatian: preskriptivizam m
• Slovak: preskriptivizmus m
• Spanish: prescriptivismo m, normativismo m
• Ukrainian: прескриптивізм m (preskryptyvizm)

See also

• prescriptive grammar
• normative grammar