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
（語言）描寫主義的
He condemned the descriptivist view of language as an "Anything Goes" school . 他把語言描寫主義觀點斥為一種“隨心所欲”的做派。
We linguists tend to be descriptivist. 作為語言學家，我們對語言通常持描寫主義觀點。
比較
prescriptivist adjective 返回 descriptivist