What are prescriptive and permissive attitudes
to language ? Discuss your attitude towards the
use of English
Answers
A prescriptive approach to something involves telling people what they should do, rather than simply giving suggestions or describing what is done. [formal] ...prescriptive attitudes to language on the part of teachers.grammar of Indian English is largely that of British English. We can have a "purist" attitude to language, which always tries to be "correct", of we can adopt a "permissive" attitude, which believes that a language belongs to whoever speaks it, and what they naturally say is all right.
Explanation:
according to prescriptive attitude,language should be used at it is. That is to say that it must be used correctly,elegantly abd consistently.This attitude js very particular about prounouciation and the choice of words, according to this attitude should be such to a specific style.Some of the people who are the advocate of this attitude is book publishers,newspaper editors, media personel and teachers.They are concerned about how language should be used. According to the permissive attitude, the languages belongs to the speakers of the language they should have freedom to use as they feel it is suitable.The advocate of this attitude see ni reason why local communities of english should not have their own standard.