Sentence examples for prescriptive function from inspiring English sources

One suggestion is that the prescriptive function of meaning statements follows from their role in coordinating our linguistic use (Gauker 2007 and 2012: 279).

Thus the emotive aspects of the moral vocabulary could be interpreted by identifying the commendatory goading or prescriptive functions of moral terms.

The stories we tell in sharing our perspectives serve both descriptive and prescriptive functions [ 13].

I'm very prescriptive about my routine.

Areas of divergence related to the type of guidance from national to sub-national levels (prescriptive or not) and the functions to be carried out by SETSAN.

I would only reference music on the page if it served some narrative function: like the carefully prescriptive, indexed lists of song titles and artist names in Morvern Callar, which enforced Morvern's methodical approach to life – and to death; here the individual timbres of the songs seemed appropriate to the mood of the drama.

If either psycho-semantic or functional norms were prescriptive, the attempt to naturalize them would seem to ignore Hume's warning to beware trying to derive ought-statements from is-statements, but those who offer teleological theories of mental content claim that the norms of both functions and content fall on the is side of any is/ought divide.

Evacuation models have been playing an important function in the transition process from prescriptive fire safety codes to performance-based ones over the last three decades.

We argue that philosophy may help addressing them: it may fix a definition of function and illustrates how descriptive and prescriptive modelling can be distinguished and connected.

The findings suggest that senior marketers written plans function as cues and guides, rather than prescriptive actions which stifle creativity and innovation.

Natural Security can be viewed as a set of analytical and prescriptive tools that are based in the recognition that the function of adaptability has fundamental roots that go back as far in Earth's history as life itself.