“Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages.”
“Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting.”
“To some extent, the presence of phoneticians on the committee ensured that the strict prescriptivism expressed by Reith in 1924 was to some extent mitigated.”
prescriptivist
Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
“I think the thing that most worried me about this text was its prescriptiveness.”
“To give her her due, the headmistress wasn't too keen on league tables herself and has spoken out against government prescriptiveness.”
“Differences in the federal role and the specificity and prescriptiveness of federal goals may also explain the reliance on ex post rather than ex ante approaches.”