PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA

MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

DJILLALI LIABES University of Sidi Bel-Abbes

Faculty of Languages, Letters and Arts
Department of English

2nd Year LMD English

Linguistics
All Groups
Instructor: Mrs. Daoudi Khadidja
daoudi221993@hotmail.com
Exercises

1. a. Explain how you understand prescriptiveness in linguistics. In your opinion, is it a

positive or a negative approach?

b. Compile some statements of prescriptivism and descriptivism in language. Good

sources for prescriptivist claims are work by William Safire (1980) and John Simon

(1980). Good sources favoring descriptivism are works by Jim Quinn (1980) and Steven

Pinker (1994).

2. Explain Bloomfield’s contribution to linguistics.

N.B.

 Your answers must be send to the teacher’s email (mentioned above) in the form of

PDF file.

 Do not forget to mention your name and group number on the file.

 Use quoting and paraphrasing strategies to avoid plagiarism.

 For any issue, you can contact me on my email.