{ "item_title" : "Perspectives on Prescriptivism", "item_author" : [" Maurizio Gotti", "Carmela Nocera", "Massimo Sturiale "], "item_description" : "The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/3/03/911/632/3039116320_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "112.85", "online_price" : "112.85", "our_price" : "112.85", "club_price" : "112.85", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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