Definition of descriptivism in English:

descriptivism

noun dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪz(ə)mdəˈskrɪptəˌvɪzəm

mass nounPhilosophy

The doctrine that the meanings of ethical or aesthetic terms and statements are purely descriptive rather than prescriptive, evaluative, or emotive.
〔哲〕描写主义，描述主义
Example sentencesExamples
- The robust version of descriptive philosophy of science derives from, or superimposes upon, the conclusions of modest descriptivism, a theory about evaluative practice.
- American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism.
- That's why I don't like the standard distinction between descriptivists and prescriptivists - descriptivism is what you should do when writing a dictionary, prescriptivism when writing a style guide.
- It's a bizarre tale about the passions stirred by what its critics saw as the dangerous shift, in the early 1960s, from prescriptivism to descriptivism in America's most authoritative dictionary.
- In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts.

Derivatives

descriptivist

adjective & noun dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst

Philosophy

This doesn't show that the expression is not being used emotively in the second premise; a descriptivist can agree to that.
Example sentencesExamples
- And the one obvious answer, which is to defer to people who create dictionaries, who are linguistic professionals, runs into the fact that they're almost all descriptivists these days.
- It is clear that in rejecting the descriptivist assumption he rejects the conception of the mind as a domain of real ‘processes and states’ which it is the business of a scientific psychology to investigate and tell us about.
- Even if you have a good descriptivist argument to defend your using ‘hailed,’ the safer bet is to write ‘haled.’
- Though I'm a staunch descriptivist in linguistic matters, I can still bemoan some changes in the language - I just don't call them ‘wrong,’ once they happen.

Definition of descriptivism in US English:

descriptivism

noundəˈskriptəˌvizəmdəˈskrɪptəˌvɪzəm

Philosophy

The doctrine that the meanings of ethical or aesthetic terms and statements are purely descriptive rather than prescriptive, evaluative, or emotive.
〔哲〕描写主义，描述主义
Example sentencesExamples
- The robust version of descriptive philosophy of science derives from, or superimposes upon, the conclusions of modest descriptivism, a theory about evaluative practice.
- That's why I don't like the standard distinction between descriptivists and prescriptivists - descriptivism is what you should do when writing a dictionary, prescriptivism when writing a style guide.
- In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts.
- It's a bizarre tale about the passions stirred by what its critics saw as the dangerous shift, in the early 1960s, from prescriptivism to descriptivism in America's most authoritative dictionary.
- American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism.

单词	descriptivism
释义	Definition of descriptivism in English: descriptivism noun dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪz(ə)mdəˈskrɪptəˌvɪzəm mass nounPhilosophy The doctrine that the meanings of ethical or aesthetic terms and statements are purely descriptive rather than prescriptive, evaluative, or emotive. 〔哲〕描写主义，描述主义 Example sentencesExamples The robust version of descriptive philosophy of science derives from, or superimposes upon, the conclusions of modest descriptivism, a theory about evaluative practice. American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism. That's why I don't like the standard distinction between descriptivists and prescriptivists - descriptivism is what you should do when writing a dictionary, prescriptivism when writing a style guide. It's a bizarre tale about the passions stirred by what its critics saw as the dangerous shift, in the early 1960s, from prescriptivism to descriptivism in America's most authoritative dictionary. In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. Derivatives descriptivist adjective & noun dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪst Philosophy This doesn't show that the expression is not being used emotively in the second premise; a descriptivist can agree to that. Example sentencesExamples And the one obvious answer, which is to defer to people who create dictionaries, who are linguistic professionals, runs into the fact that they're almost all descriptivists these days. It is clear that in rejecting the descriptivist assumption he rejects the conception of the mind as a domain of real ‘processes and states’ which it is the business of a scientific psychology to investigate and tell us about. Even if you have a good descriptivist argument to defend your using ‘hailed,’ the safer bet is to write ‘haled.’ Though I'm a staunch descriptivist in linguistic matters, I can still bemoan some changes in the language - I just don't call them ‘wrong,’ once they happen. Definition of descriptivism in US English: descriptivism noundəˈskriptəˌvizəmdəˈskrɪptəˌvɪzəm Philosophy The doctrine that the meanings of ethical or aesthetic terms and statements are purely descriptive rather than prescriptive, evaluative, or emotive. 〔哲〕描写主义，描述主义 Example sentencesExamples The robust version of descriptive philosophy of science derives from, or superimposes upon, the conclusions of modest descriptivism, a theory about evaluative practice. That's why I don't like the standard distinction between descriptivists and prescriptivists - descriptivism is what you should do when writing a dictionary, prescriptivism when writing a style guide. In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. It's a bizarre tale about the passions stirred by what its critics saw as the dangerous shift, in the early 1960s, from prescriptivism to descriptivism in America's most authoritative dictionary. American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism.
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