Prescriptivism And LME

Question 1

What is prescriptivism

Answer 1

Belief that there’s an incorrect and correct forms of language, and that people’s language needs regulating

Question 2

When was the age of prescriptivism

Answer 2

1700s-1960s

Question 3

What led to the emergence of lme

Answer 3

Standardization - English language acquired rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation
1755 - spelling and punctuation was standardized in Johnson’s dictionary

Question 4

Period of lme

Answer 4

1700s-1900s

Question 5

Some typical features of lme

Answer 5

• long, complex sentences broken up by parenthesis and punctuation
• majority Latinate vocab, a more formal society, lang embodies a formal society
• spelling beginning to be standardized (use of ou~could, but still some unstandardized stept instead of stepped~moving to regulaisation)