In short, a prescriptivist believes that effective communication in a given language may be achieved only by strictly adhering to centralized rules. Conversely, a descriptivist believes that so long as a sentence is able to convey its intended message, it is a correct usage of language. I am staunchly of the belief that prescriptivism in the English language is unfeasible. As the language of one of the world’s dominant ideologies, attempting to fit the ever-changing shape of anglophone
the pursuit to find the differences between descriptivism and prescriptivism this paper will discuss what descriptivism is and what prescriptivism is. The first part of the paper will introduce both descriptivism and prescriptivism in detail. The author will go on to explore what descriptivism is and what attitude to writing and speaking it represents. This paper will discuss the various settings in which descriptivism and prescriptivism can be used in and which settings they should not be used in
The Standard English is considered to be influential by educated speakers. It is codified by overwriting grammatical rules and dictionaries classifications. The English language is used in the popular newspapers, and radio and television programs we have even in our schools, theaters. A significant number of people are wondering what it is about our country and our community that our own language has become very poor, very careless and very limited. We have reached in such a wasteland dreary and
for my personal language poem within the wider constitution of Socio-linguistics. It will draw on Rosina Lippi-Green’s, “English with an accent” chapter one ,( Lippi-Green, 1997), with emphasis on two specific arguments that I intend to focus on, namely; ‘The relationship between ones language and social identity’ and ‘who claims authority over language decisions’, (Lippi-Green, 1997). This essay will also account for various themes of language, namely; ‘the mixture of ones language in relation to
to reach English standardization Introduction: English language passed many stages until it reached its current standard structure. In this essay, I am going to discuss the way that codified English language in dictionaries; in addition to stating the reasons behind recommending dictionaries. The essay will shed the light on the history of English language in the past until its standardization. As well known, in the past there was no English language in the world, but only Celtic languages were spoken
" A national language is the structure of several forms of a language such as the fictitious language, accepted conversational varieties of the language, and dialects. In the course of the configuration of a national language, the relationship between literary language and vernacular endures a considerable change. The national literary language is the most important developing form of a language; it regularly displaces the dialects that dominated the earlier stages
Mutual Intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which two or more speakers of different but closely related languages can understand each other whilst having a conversation – without being previously familiarised with the other language or by intentionally learning it. Dialects of a single language are mutually intelligible, whilst different languages are not. Mutual intelligibility occurs predominantly amongst languages that have the same origin – for example between Xhosa
standard of English Kachru’s model shows the existence of a whole world of Englishes. This diversity is a source of an ongoing debate about a universal standard variation. The main reason for this debate is the fear that the use of non-standard varieties of English “will lead to a lack of intelligibility among speakers of English” (McKay and Bokhorst-Heng, 2008, p.140). Randolph Quirk, on the one hand, argues that there is a need for a common standard in all three circles of English. In his point
Name: Sher Shah Rahim ID: 13961 Topic: (1) English a threat to Local Languages Introduction English is everywhere. Around three hundred and eighty million people are speaking it as their first language and maybe two-thirds as many again as their second. More than a billion people are currently learning it. By 2050 it is predicted that half of the world will be more or less proficient in English language. English is on the internet, it is on computers, mobile phones and most importantly
The linguists felt the need of purifying English language because of the intrusion of foreign language words. They assumed their role the role of an authority to perfect the language by giving logical rules. ‘By seventeenth century Grammarian and lexicographer, Elisha Coles compiled An English Dictionary (1692) by assuming that words can be defined according to the principle that all language has common elements. For example, he explains difficult terms from divinity, husbandry, philosophy, law,