The need of normative and linguistic support, especially to non-Lao speakers, was confirmed in discussions with nurses, doctors and VHVs.
Another takes autonomy of form to be a normative claim: that linguistic concepts ought not to be defined or characterized in terms of non-linguistic concepts.
Much recent research aims at an accurate characterization of this normative structure underlying linguistic practice.
Each time we apply some natural, empirically guided interpretation in practice, we participate in shaping evolving normative practices (both linguistic and behavioral practices).
But there remains a question of what influence normative reality has on linguistic practice.
In addition, an appreciation of speech acts has helped lay bare a normative structure implicit in linguistic practice, including even that part of this practice concerned with describing reality.
In the first instance, language is tied to the world, not by a single reference (or 'satisfaction') relation, but by the multitude of relationships — causal (in both directions), spatio-temporal, and normative — between tokens of linguistic expressions and the world.
As Robert Kraut describes it, "metaphysical claims that initially appear to state language-world connections claims about the relation between predicates and properties, for example—are, on Sellars's theory, construed as normative claims about appropriate linguistic usage" (Kraut 2010: 601).
Boghossian (2003: 39) withdraws his earlier claim that meaning is essentially normative, suggesting that the "the linguistic version of the normativity thesis, in contrast with its mentalistic version, has no plausibility whatever…".
The continuing debate on the issue of the linguistic status of normative statements generated an effort to clarify the nature of ethical disagreement as a means for the resolution of that debate.
