English Language A-Level
Attitudes and prescriptivism
What Attitudes and prescriptivism means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Attitudes to variation and change include prescriptive and descriptive positions, and analysis should distinguish descriptive observation from prescriptive judgement.
Topics that use Attitudes and prescriptivism
- Language diversity and change (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Causes and explanations of change
- Context and language variation
- Methods of language analysis
- Audiences
- Dialect
- Identity
- Language data collections
- Representation of social groups
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