Prescriptive & Descriptive Linguistics
Prescriptive
Prescriptive view of language formulates rules for spoken and written forms of language
It concentrates on “how should be a language” rather on “what is language"
The major goal of prescriptive linguistic is the standardization of language and lexicography.
Important issue is resistance to language change
Descriptive Linguistics
Descriptive view seeks to record language actually used by native speakers.
It describes how a language works, rather how a language should be.
It also deals with the pragmatics of language that how to use it keeping in view the context/situation.
It deals with the description and analysis of ways in which language operates/used by speakers.
It is the technical branch of linguistics and deals with phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax.
Difference between Phonetics & Phonology
Phonetics studies sounds of all languages of the world.
Phonology studies only particular sounds of a specific language.
Phonetics is general, because it concerns with speech sounds without reference to their function in a particular language.
In contrast, the phonology is specific and functional in nature, because it is concerned with working or functioning of speech sounds in a language.
Morphology
The term “morphology” is derived from the Greek word “morphe”
(form) and ‘logy’(the study of morphology), so it means the “study of forms”.
It studies the smallest grammatical units of language and their formation into word.
It deals with what morphemes are and how do they operate in the structure of the word.
Syntax
The term “Syntax” is derived from the Greek preposition "Sun”(together) and “tax”(to put in order).
words can be strung together to form acceptable sentences.
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