tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 54 - Attitude of Language

Nhằm giúp các bạn có thêm tài liệu ôn tập kiến thức, kĩ năng cơ bản, và biết cách vận dụng giải các bài tập một cách nhanh nhất và chính xác. Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 54 - Attitude of Language để tích lũy kinh nghiệm giải đề các bạn nhé! | Attitude of Language It is not easy to be systematic and objective about language study. Popular linguistic debate regularly deteriorates into invective and polemic. Language belongs to everyone so most people feel they have a right to hold an opinion about it And when opinions differ emotions can run high. Arguments can start as easily over minor points of usage as over major policies of linguistic education. Language more oven is a very public behavior so it is easy for different usages to be noted and criticized No part of society or social behavior is exempt linguistic factors influence how we judge personality intelligence social status educational standards job aptitude and many other areas of identity and social survival. As a result it is easy to hurt and to be hurt when language use is unfeelingly attacked. ln its most general sense. prescriptivism is the view that one variety of language has an inherently higher value than others and that this ought to be imposed on the whole of the speech community. The view is propounded especially in relation to grammar and vocabulary and frequently with reference to pronunciation. The variety which ls favoured in this account ls usually a version of the standard written language especially as encountered in literature or in the formal spoken language which most closely reflects this style. Adherents to this variety are said to speak or write correctly deviations from lt are said to be incorrect . All the main languages have been studied prescriptlvely especially in the 18th century approach to the writing of grammars and dictionaries. The aims of these early grammarians were threefold a they wanted to codify the principles of their languages to show that there was a system beneath the apparent chaos of usage. b they wanted a means of settling disputes over usage and c they wanted to point out what they felt to be common errors in order to improve the language. The authoritarian nature of the approach is best .