prescriptive linguistics

1. 1.

   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

   Antonymsdescriptive linguistics

   Broaderlinguistics

Questions about prescriptive linguistics

What does prescriptive linguistics mean?

prescriptive linguistics means "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".

What is the opposite of prescriptive linguistics?

The recorded antonyms are descriptive linguistics.

Is prescriptive linguistics a common word?

prescriptive linguistics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.