English Dictionary

prescriptivist

noun

(linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

As a prescriptivist, he believes in strict adherence to grammar rules.

意味（1）

(linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.