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Descriptive Linguistics and Prescriptive Linguistics规定语言学和描述语言学 Definition History Prescriptive Grammar VS Descriptive Grammar Examples Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Prescriptive linguistics规定语言学 --- an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used . It is the act of taking the official models of a language, and treating them as sacred [seikrid] perfect representations of the language, and enforcing them on people. For example, correcting someone who uses the word “ain’t” (am not/are not), even if it’s used in an appropriately casual way.