Prescriptivism in Romanian lexicography

The article argues that prescriptivism in dictionary making is a pervasive feature, despite the lexicographers’ claims that the dictionary they present to the public is descriptive in approach. Since prescriptiveness is a matter of degrees rather than an absolute and, moreover, it can occur under different guises, we use the case of a major Romanian dictionary project in order to highlight some reifications of normative attitudes identifiable in the outside matter, macrostructure and microstructure of dictionaries.