prescriptivist
adjective
languagespecializeduk/prɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/us/prɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/believingthat there arecorrectandwrongwaysto uselanguageand thatbooksaboutlanguageshould giverulestofollow,ratherthandescribinghowlanguageis really used:
规约主义的Someteachersholdto the prescriptivistviewin thedebateoverusageanddictionaries.在对使用法和词典的辩论中,一些教师坚持规约主义的观点。
traditionalprescriptivist grammars传统规约主义语法
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prescriptivist
noun[C]
uk/prɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/us/prɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/languagespecialized
someone whobelievesthat there arecorrectandwrongwaysto uselanguageand thatbooksaboutlanguageshould giverulestofollow,ratherthandescribinghowlanguageis really used:
规约主义者This "descriptive"approachtostandardEnglishraisedthehacklesof prescriptivists, whobelievedinestablishedrulesand ahierarchyofexpression.这一“描述主义”手法让规约主义者感到恼怒,他们相信已确立的规则和表述的等级。
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- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
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