Like emotivism, which it grew naturally out of in the 1950s, a form of speech act theory which analyzes value judgments and especially moral judgments, this time in terms of prescriptions.
When I tell you that lying is wrong I am telling you not to lie, though I am also committing myself not to lie, and to issue the same prescription (or at least issue none that conflicts with it) to anyone else; see also universalizability.
Prescriptivism contrasts with descriptivism, and shares many of the features of, and objections to, emotivism.
Source:
R M Hare, The Language of Morals (1952)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History
- 2.2 Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn’ts
- 2.3 Describing Prescriptivism: Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English
- 2.4 Perspectives on Prescriptivism (Linguistic Insights)
- 2.5 The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism
- 2.6 The Scientific Consensus and Recent British Philosophy - Convergences of British Schools of Psycho-Analysis, Piaget's Analysis, The Gestalt School and Ethology, and Ethics of British Idealism vs Logical Realixm and Prescriptivism. Popular Prakashan. 1980.
- 2.7 The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)
- 2.8 It is me vs. It is I. Case Study on the effects of prescriptivism
- 2.9 The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
- 2.10 Mightier than the Sword: An Introduction to the Philosophical Quests to Discover the Nature of the Cosmos and How Best to Live
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Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History
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- 208 Pages - 04/28/2016 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn’ts
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Describing Prescriptivism: Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English
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- van Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon (Author)
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- 288 Pages - 10/14/2019 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Perspectives on Prescriptivism (Linguistic Insights)
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- 269 Pages - 04/30/2008 (Publication Date) - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (Publisher)
The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism
- Hardcover Book
- Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 01/07/2011 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
The Scientific Consensus and Recent British Philosophy - Convergences of British Schools of Psycho-Analysis, Piaget's Analysis, The Gestalt School and Ethology, and Ethics of British Idealism vs Logical Realixm and Prescriptivism. Popular Prakashan. 1980.
- Hardcover Book
- 04/06/1980 (Publication Date) - Popular Prakashan (Publisher)
The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)
- Hardcover Book
- Drake, Glendon F. (Author)
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- 140 Pages - 01/01/1977 (Publication Date) - John Benjamins Publishing Company (Publisher)
It is me vs. It is I. Case Study on the effects of prescriptivism
- Costa Rivas, Xoana (Author)
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- 78 Pages - 10/24/2016 (Publication Date) - Grin Verlag (Publisher)
The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
- Auer, A. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 236 Pages - 12/19/2008 (Publication Date) - Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Mightier than the Sword: An Introduction to the Philosophical Quests to Discover the Nature of the Cosmos and How Best to Live
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- Walmsley-Hall, Theresa Louisa (Author)
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- 302 Pages - 02/26/2019 (Publication Date)
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