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descriptivism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
descriptivism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism, doctrine |
Examples of descriptivism
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As such, textualism is applied in search of an end and descriptivism is not.
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Such descriptivism was criticized in Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity.
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Descriptivism means accurately describing all kinds of language.
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Prescriptivism isn't an alternative to descriptivism, because prescriptivism isn't a methodology.
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Descriptivism, like textualism, has some elements of passivity.
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A bit of prescriptive descriptivism comes from Tom Chatfield.
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Kripke rejects both these kinds of descriptivism.
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The motivations for this approach are rather different from those that inspired other forms of descriptivism, however.
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I guess we agree, but I really wish the argument was framed differently than the debate between descriptivism and prescriptivism.
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- (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value
- (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics
- (Descriptivist) In the study of language, description, or descriptive linguistics, is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. ...
- Describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms, of linguistic usage
- Observation of how language is used. This is generally the method used in linguistics. (Cf. prescriptivism)
