Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations.
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Prescriptionist
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Educators often come into the profession with a certain view of language that is more prescriptionist in nature (Edwards, 1982; Taylor, 1983; Trudgill, 1975; Williams, 1976).
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Teaching the English language may be their bread and butter, but they are unable to enforce the notion of a 'standard prescriptionist English.'
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In a fine essay, Terry Eagleton has argued that rights, for a prescriptionist like Burke, are validated by 'the recounting of a certain narrative'.
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