Prescriptivism Perception In David Wallace's 'Authority And American Usage'

Prior to reading Authority and American usage written by David Wallace by the title alone I had low expectation on how much I would enjoy the read but I grew to have a lot of interest in the reading. In the reading David Wallace raised the issues between Prescriptivism perception and descriptivism perception, as he goes back in history dates as far back as biblical times up to the present day observing how the English language has been constantly changing since the beginning of the English language with no thoughts on putting a cap on the language and stop the continuing of adding words to the English language, including the fact that prescriptivism disagrees with the different opinions on how the English language should be spoken and it would …show more content…
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