| 释义 |
prescriptivist, a. and n.|prɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. An adherent or advocate of prescriptivism.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of prescriptivism.
1952T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. xi. 272 But he is likely not to see any reason why absolute uniformity, the desideratum of the prescriptivist, should be any particular concern of the student of language even if it were possible of attainment. 1959Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. Vol. XXXIII. 167 It seems to me that only prescriptivist prejudice can deny that we have here a morality. 1960J. O. Urmson Conc. Encycl. Western Philos. 143 To call a thing good is thereby to offer guidance about choices; and the same might be said of the other moral terms. Descriptivists, however, refuse to admit that this feature is part of the meaning of moral terms. Their principal opponents, who may be called ‘prescriptivists’, hold that it is part of the meaning. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. v. 90 But the decision to edit..has nothing in common with the prescriptivist's zeal. 1967Encycl. Philos. II. 317/2 The prescriptivist assimilates definitions to imperative sentences rather than to declarative sentences. 1973Heythrop Jrnl. XIV. 139 His normative views are no more arbitrary or relativist than those of any utilitarian, despite his non-naturalist and prescriptivist theory of meta-ethics. 1976T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology v. 174 It is this purely prescriptivist morality..which finds a later echo in the moral ideology of Kant. 1977Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1974 lxi/lxii. 8 The English teacher who..is suddenly bereft of her prescriptivist techniques and her substitution drills. |