prescriptive linguistics

Definitions of prescriptive linguistics
  1. noun
    an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics
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    antonyms:
    descriptive linguistics
    a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments
    type of:
    linguistics
    the scientific study of language
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