descriptivist

剑桥词典

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
（语言）描写主义的
He condemned the descriptivist view of language as an "Anything Goes" school . 他把语言描写主义观点斥为一种“随心所欲”的做派。
We linguists tend to be descriptivist. 作为语言学家，我们对语言通常持描写主义观点。
比较
prescriptivist adjective 返回 descriptivist