LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moon Zappa, Tacit Knowledge, Linguistic Prescription
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A simple yet remarkable fact: almost everybody speaks. People without language (cid:28668)(cid:28672)(cid:28675)(cid:28660)(cid:28668)(cid:28677)(cid:28672)(cid:28664)(cid:28673)(cid:28679)(cid:28678) (cid:28660)(cid:28671)(cid:28671) (cid:28678)(cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28660)(cid:28670) (cid:28675)(cid:28677)(cid:28664)(cid:28679)(cid:28679)y (cid:28672)(cid:28680)(cid:28662)(cid:28667) (cid:28668)(cid:28673) (cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664) (cid:28678)(cid:28660)(cid:28672)(cid:28664) (cid:28682)(cid:28660)y (cid:28668)(cid:28673) (cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664) (cid:28678)(cid:28660)(cid:28672)(cid:28664) (cid:28671)(cid:28660)(cid:28673)(cid:28666)(cid:28680)(cid:28660)(cid:28666)(cid:28664). (cid:28647)(cid:28667)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28664)"(cid:28678) rarely another activity and skill set that is so commonly shared within humans. Claim: formal, careful speech is no more grammatically more sophisticated then casual, everyday speech. To understand this claim, we need to distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive rules. Prescriptive grammar: rules that tell people how they should speak (and write). Although we encounter prescriptive rules more often when writing than speaking. Descriptive grammar: rules that describe how people actually speak. Linguists are more interested in descriptive rules as linguistics is a science. T(cid:28667)(cid:28664)y (cid:28663)(cid:28674)(cid:28673)"(cid:28679) tell people what to say, but instead they listen and try to understand what rules (cid:28680)(cid:28673)(cid:28663)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28671)(cid:28668)(cid:28664)(cid:28678) (cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28674)(cid:28675)(cid:28671)(cid:28664)"(cid:28678) (cid:28678)(cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28664)(cid:28662)(cid:28667). Prescriptivism in english: eg. older (english) is better; latin is better.
