Welcome to Episode 70 of Lexis. Raj and Dan talk to Dr Emma Humphries, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast about all things prescriptivism. We talk about:<ul><li>What prescriptivism is and how it can de defined</li><li>Prescriptivism in French and English and the role of the Academy</li><li>The Your Wrong project that Emma is working on</li><li>Prescriptivism in popular culture and traditional guides, manuals and grammars</li><li>Why prescriptivism and descriptivism are not locked in a war and why it’s more than a goodies vs baddies, left vs right binary</li><li>The kinds of arguments prescriptivists put forward</li><li>Why complaints about language are often - but not always - proxies for complaints about people</li><li>How to convert a prescriptivist</li><li>How to get involved in the Your Wrong project</li></ul>Your Wrong website: <a href="https://yourwrong.co.uk/">https://yourwrong.co.uk/</a> Submit your examples: <a href="https://yourwrong.co.uk/submit">https://yourwrong.co.uk/submit</a> Contact Emma: <a href="mailto:popularprescriptivism@gmail.com">popularprescriptivism@gmail.com</a> Emma’s Queen’s University page: <a href="https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/emma-humphries">https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/emma-humphries</a> Emma’s favourite book about language: <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-myths-laurie-bauer/762943?ean=9780140260236">https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-myths-laurie-bauer/762943?ean=9780140260236</a> Lexis is on Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</a> ContributorsLisa Casey blog: <a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/">https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</a> & Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates">Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</a>Dan Clayton blog: <a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/">EngLangBlog</a> & Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</a> Jacky Glancey Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey">https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</a>Raj RanaMatthew Butler Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA">https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</a> Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</a>

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