Search Result for "prescriptive linguistics":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prescriptive linguistics
    n 1: an account of how a language should be used instead of how
         it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct'
         phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics [ant:
         descriptive linguistics]