柯林斯詞典prescriptivism /pr??skr?pt??v?z?m/ 1. N the theory that moral utterances have no truth value but prescribe attitudes to others and express the conviction of the speaker 規(guī)范主義[ethics] →compare descriptivism ,emotivism 返回 prescriptivism劍橋詞典language specialized the belief that there are correct and wrong ways to use language and that books about language should give rules to follow , rather than describing how language is really used 規(guī)約主義 There has been a blurring of the sharp distinction between descriptivism and prescriptivism in the writings of grammarians and lexicographers . 在文法學(xué)者和詞典編纂者的作品中，描述主義和規(guī)約主義之間的界限開始模糊了。 比較descriptivism 返回 prescriptivism