descriptivist

劍橋詞典

believing that books about language should describe how language is really used, rather than giving rules to follow saying what is correct and not correct
（語(yǔ)言）描寫主義的
He condemned the descriptivist view of language as an "Anything Goes" school . 他把語(yǔ)言描寫主義觀點(diǎn)斥爲(wèi)一種“隨心所欲”的做派。
We linguists tend to be descriptivist. 作爲(wèi)語(yǔ)言學(xué)家，我們對(duì)語(yǔ)言通常持描寫主義觀點(diǎn)。
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