1
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What is prescriptivism
A
Belief that there’s an incorrect and correct forms of language, and that people’s language needs regulating
2
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When was the age of prescriptivism
A
1700s-1960s
3
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What led to the emergence of lme
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Standardization - English language acquired rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation
1755 - spelling and punctuation was standardized in Johnson’s dictionary
4
Q
Period of lme
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1700s-1900s
5
Q
Some typical features of lme
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- long, complex sentences broken up by parenthesis and punctuation
- majority Latinate vocab, a more formal society, lang embodies a formal society
- spelling beginning to be standardized (use of ou~could, but still some unstandardized stept instead of stepped~moving to regulaisation)
