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Attitudes to variation: prescriptivism and descriptivism

Unit 4 AOS1 — Language variation in Australian society
4 · AOS1

What this note covers

  1. Two stances on language
  2. Prestige and the standard ideology
  3. Linguistic prejudice has real costs
  4. The complaint tradition

4 sections · 12 key terms & formulas · 5 common mistakes

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