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单词 descriptivist
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descriptivist
adjective
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/dɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/us
/dɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/
believingthatbooksaboutlanguageshoulddescribehowlanguageis really used,ratherthan givingrulestofollowsaying what iscorrectand notcorrect:
（语言）描写主义的
Hecondemnedthe descriptivistviewoflanguageas an "Anything Goes"school.他把语言描写主义观点斥为一种“随心所欲”的做派。
Welinguiststendto be descriptivist.作为语言学家，我们对语言通常持描写主义观点。
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descriptivist
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/us
/dɪˈskrɪp.tɪ.vɪst/
languagespecialized
someone whobelievesthatbooksaboutlanguageshoulddescribehowlanguageis really used,ratherthan givingrulestofollowsaying what iscorrectand notcorrect:
（语言）描写主义者
He was a descriptivist andbelievedthat adictionaryshouldreflecttheactualcontemporarystateof thelanguage.他曾是一名语言描写主义者，认为词典应该反映语言在当代的真实使用情况。
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(Definition ofdescriptivistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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I refuse to see the term ' 'descriptivist' ' as referring to some kind of invalid or illegitimate activity.
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Despite the range of views apparent across the contributions, two overarching positions are visible, which we might term 'descriptivist' and ' discursivist', respectively.
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Even the "puredescriptivist" has a dogmatic predilection against making judgments.
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Anydescriptivistwould heartily support its usage and publication.
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Prescriptivist anddescriptivisttendencies in orthographic controversies have been in a tense relationship.
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I am adescriptivist, happily spending my career trying to figure out the grammars of previously undescribed languages.
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Here is our answer: good prescriptivist books sell because people find them useful and enjoyable; gooddescriptivistbooks typically have a professional readership that is extremely limited.
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Under a non-descriptivistreading, they are probably not.
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In both works, he advocated adescriptiviststance, rejecting what he considered to be the excessive purism prevalent in the field.
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Conversely, an extremedescriptivistmight maintain that there is no such thing as incorrect use.
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He would also become, among prescriptive grammarians, the target of choice for the criticism meted out by laterdescriptivistlinguists.
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Kripke formally states a number of theses as the core of thedescriptivisttheory, with these theses explaining the theory in terms of reference (rather than the sense or meaning).
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According to thedescriptivisttheory of meaning, there is a description of the sense of proper names, and that description, like a definition, "picks out" the bearer of the name.
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