The Basics of Prescriptive vs Descriptive Linguistics
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A short overview of a hotly debated topic. Should language function through a set of official guidelines and rules or does language belong to its speakers?
Prescriptive = language should follow a set structure of rules.
Descriptive = language should follow what sounds right to a majority of speakers.
If you want to drive into linguistics in much, much greater detail, Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style is a great place to start.
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I think prescriptivism descriptivism argument is silly. Because neither represents the actual reality. If you check a language through a long period of time, the language is, like a species, always evolving. Non constant. But if you check a language or a species in an instance or a very small time frame, it is constant or almost constant. The change is miniscule.
Even if you think broad and say language is despriptivistic to determine the current state of the language, you have to stop and measure how the majority using it in a particular region or worldiwide. If you don't do that you will never be able to have set rules of the language. And the ability to communicate in that language will be passed quite inaccurately from generation to generation. Therefore, we should look at the language prescriptivisticly and record the current state. It is an error minimizing checkpoint of language. However, change is uncontrollable and the majority of the people will decide if the trend to use the language in a certain way will last or not. If it hinders the language or obsolete, it will probably die out in time. But if it is useful it will last. And as we snapshot the rules at the different timepoints. Whenever the next time we re-assess the rules we will record the changes. Also we can know and record how widely some things are used and in which groups etc.
If we see the language only descriptivisticly it isn't possible to pass the skill easily and it is impossible to keep track of every slightly different way each and every person uses the language. Therefore, if each and every way is seen equal, the language gets ineffective in communicating.
Bıkoz ez a pörsn I cn feock dı lenguç end dere izınt e wey to hayerarkikıli rank it lowır then enodır yuz.
(Because as a person I can fuck the language and there isn't a way to hierarchically rank it lower then another use.
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you're describing descriptive linguistics lol
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hi why the audio comes earlier before the video itself is it just me or y'all having the same issue
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What does "paradigm shift" imply in linguistics?
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A paradigm shift is a different way of looking at things. So in this video, it's referring to a large group looking at linguistics in a different way.
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Greate video❤ but please I need someone to help me and give me more examples about both. Prescriptive and descriptive linguistic 🤗
Thank you so much! Anything specific that's still confusing?
@@OxfordCommaEducation I just need more examples about descriptive linguistic and prescriptive linguistic.
Here are some things a prescriptive grammarian would take issue with:
Ending a sentence in a preposition, split infinitives, starting a sentence with And or But, using Lesser and Fewer interchangeably.
A descriptive grammarian would be fine with all of those.
Hope that helps!
There's also some great examples in the book listed in the description if you want to go further with this.
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Dialekts still have their defined rules within a short time period.
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Thanks! I think that's a great idea. I'll try to have some videos up in the next few weeks. In the meantime, just be sure to give your paper an out loud reading. Most people catch more of their mistakes that way.
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Hi can you talk about norbert schmitt book
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with that book. I had a different linguistics textbook in college...But if you have any conceptual questions, I'll do my best to answer them!
Is there a name for your position on the issue?
Good question. I guess linguistic moderate... Most people are so entrenched in one camp or the other that I've never heard a hybrid position defined.
Please make more videos
Hopefully one coming out this weekend. Thanks for the encouragement!
I would like you to define curriculum
Great question. Curriculum is the works, lessons, and assessments that go into a class. Basically what a teachers teaches.
I am very torn apart when I apply this concept in a country with almost 130 languages. Colonial history really messed up the development of our languages that, as of now, we have trouble explaining scientific, technological, and even important progressive ideas to the masses. We use a foreign (but official) language but many experiments and demonstrations have discredited its effectiveness in facilitating education. It could have downplayed the importance of a reading culture, which the lower classes need the most, because majority of the books are printed in the foreign language. I guess we have to strike the best combination of descriptive and prescriptive strategies because in a country with many languages, we have to strive not becoming language imperialists.
That must be such a difficult situation to navigate! Language is definitely not brought up enough when people discuss the ramifications of imperialism and globalization.
Thank you for sharing your insight!
Prescriptive. Is it negative or positive?
Depends who you ask. I would say that, currently, the prescriptive approach is seen as more of a negative than positive in modern education.
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@@roar5526 In what our professor said. Misinterpretation occur with descriptive language.
@@roar5526It can't. Because prescriptive adapt. And has no strict rules when it comes to format.
@@roar5526 eh? I have no idea. I'm just a student. Haha
Yeah prescriptive is when you try eagerly set down rules. Actually, saying what must happen, especial by giving instructions.
For those who's got a naivety in their blood it might be difficult to hit home
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No no
Descriptive grammar is always correct
The grammarian has mistakes when they said (use_ he or she- Dont use they)
And all of the ancient books says that the native spear says(they)
And the preposition at the end is correct
Ex
Who will you go with?
It is correct
It is british grammarian's fault
You can see mant mistakes on cambridge.com
So
Cambridge is the english of one old city
Not all of the english
So
The comparative grammar based on one city
Not all english
That means
The comparative grammar is wrong
And still students in schools study it
So basically, it is a matter of either being a Grammar N*zi or a Grammar C*mmunist.
if it's a formal setting, then Standard English all the way. If it's colloquial, then say what the f one wishes.