descriptivism

The motivations for this approach are rather different from those that inspired other forms of descriptivism, however.

Descriptivism is the belief that description is more significant or important to teach, study, and practice than prescription.

First, he offered up what has come to be known as "the modal argument" (or argument from rigidity) against descriptivism.

Kripke rejects both these kinds of descriptivism.

Descriptivism may refer to:

Pullum is also a frequent contributor to the blog Language Log upon which he can often be found arguing for linguistic descriptivism.

Such descriptivism was criticized in Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity.

Descriptivism is the name given to the view that the way people actually use language should be accurately described, without prescription of how they ought to use it.

In the same work, Kripke articulated several other arguments against "Frege-Russell" descriptivism.

Since, under traditional descriptivism, these descriptions are what define the name Jonah; these descriptivists must say that Jonah did not exist.

As Andrew Norman wrote, in a letter published in this book on page 113, "You flit freely back and forth between prescriptivism and descriptivism."

Ideology, Power and Linguistic Theory (pdf format) a paper about descriptivism and prescriptivism by Geoffrey Pullum.

The question of whether or not these alternative plural forms can be considered incorrect or not touches on the on-going prescriptivism vs descriptivism debate in linguistics and language education.

With reference to the practicing scientist, we replace descriptivism with constructivism; we modify relative validity with the claim to understanding; and, we offer methodological strategies for acquiring understanding.

In it, Russell introduces definite and indefinite descriptions, formulates descriptivism with regard to proper names, and characterizes proper names as "disguised" or "abbreviated" definite descriptions.

Descriptivism suggests that a name is indeed an abbreviation of a description, which is a set of properties or, as later modified by John Searle, a disjunction of properties.

By 1970, analytic philosophers widely accepted a view regarding the reference-relation that holds of proper names and that which they name which is known as descriptivism and attributed to Bertrand Russell.

Before Kripke delivered the famous lecture series Naming and Necessity in 1970, the descriptivism advocated by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell was the orthodoxy.

A type of simple descriptivism was originally formulated by Frege in reaction to problems that confronted the predominant theory of names of the 19th century due to John Stuart Mill.

Malipiero's musical language is characterized by an extreme formal freedom; he always renounced the academic discipline of variation, preferring the more anarchic expression of song, and he avoided falling into program music descriptivism.

In Saul Kripke's famous Naming and Necessity lectures, which largely turned the tide against descriptivism, he treats both Russell and Frege as opposed to Mill's view in the same way.

The degree to which there is a need to avoid pleonasms such as redundant acronyms depends on one's balance point of prescriptivism (ideas about how language should be used) versus descriptivism (the realities of how natural language is used).

But under Katz's version of descriptivism, the sense of Jonah contains no information derived from the Biblical accounts but contains only the term "Jonah" itself in the phrase "the thing that is a bearer of 'Jonah'."

Scott Soames is a notable opponent of two-dimensionalism, which he sees as an attempt to revive Russelian-Fregean descriptivism and to overturn what he sees as a "revolution" in semantics begun by Kripke and others.

As Anthony Pym, professor of sociolinguistics and sociological scholar of translation and intercultural studies, points out, a shift within the field from descriptivism towards tendencies of globalisation can be observed that draw the attention to questions of cross-cultural communication.