| Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages. |
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| Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting. |
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| To some extent, the presence of phoneticians on the committee ensured that the strict prescriptivism expressed by Reith in 1924 was to some extent mitigated. |
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| That's prescriptivism — no doubt about it. |
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| Priestley's and Lowth's grammars epitomized, respectively, the two main trends of grammatical tradition, namely descriptivism and prescriptivism. |
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| He asserted that his prescriptivism was driven by the urge to stick to the Swahili culture and heritage. |
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| Indeed, this fear of prescriptivism came to inform an active rejection of eco-feminist and vegetarian feminist theory. |
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| To a somewhat lesser extent he examines issue of metaethics, including intuitionism, emotivism, and prescriptivism. |
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| There are several alternative theories of ethics, including utilitarianism, universal prescriptivism, Kant's theory, intuitionism, and the theory of information ethics. |
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