{"product_id":"perspectives-on-prescriptivism-maurizio-gotti-9783039116324","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurizio Gotti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3039116320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783039116324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Maurizio Gotti","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452799598847,"sku":"9783039116324","price":112.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5bb34e0-8646-4e74-9b20-b46bca180ce1.jpg?v=1761930550","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perspectives-on-prescriptivism-maurizio-gotti-9783039116324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}