Kroch, Anthony; Small, Cathy (1978), «Grammatical Ideology and Its Effect on Speech», en Sankoff, David, ed., Linguistic variation : models and methods, Academic Press, ISBN0-126188505. "Modern linguistics entirely rejects prescriptivism in grammatical analysis. Rightly so, since prescriptivism is simply the ideology by which the guardians of the standard language impose their linguistic norms on people who have perfectly serviceable norms of their own."
Norma, estándar, desviación (en inglés) "I think sensible prescriptivism ought to be part of any education. I would certainly think that students ought to know the standard literary language with all its conventions, its absurdities, its artificial conventions, and so on because that’s a real cultural system, and an important cultural system. They should certainly know it and be inside it and be able to use it freely. I don’t think people should give them any illusions about what it is. It’s not better, or more sensible. Much of it is a violation of natural law. [...] So a good deal of what’s taught in the standard language is just a history of artificialities, and they have to be taught because they’re artificial".
