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Publication details [#61542]

Strelēvica-Osiņa, Dace. 2016. Who loves prescriptivism and why? Some aspects of language correctness in Latvia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (3) : 253–262.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Observing crosscultural contrasts in prescriptive stances in diverse linguistic communities, a theory of three prescriptivism types, to wit human-, language-, and error-oriented, has been presented. This study points up Latvian conduct towards language correctness and revision, and its historical and political backgrounds.