Preispitivanje jedne lingvističke doktrine u engleskom
A Linguistic Doctrine in English Reexamined

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues that the anti-prescriptivist doctrine, well established among academic linguists in USA and Britain, inspired by American Structuralism and later accepted by sociolinguists, is facing a revision. Demands to change alleged discriminatory elements of usage remain unopposed by linguists, and "verbal hygiene" is now being explicitely justified in a theoretical work by D. Cameron. How comprehensive this revision is going to be is not yet clear. Does it include only the anti-discriminatory interventions in the usage or would it reconsider some aspects of "old prescriptivism" based on etymology, logic and chauvinism?

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