INTRODUCTION.

The article, titled "INTRODUCTION," discusses the study of dictionaries and their role in the prescriptive/descriptive dimensions of language. It highlights a workshop on metalexicography that focused on the keyword "prescription" and explored the complex relationship between dictionaries and prescriptivism. The papers included in the article examine topics such as the role of dictionaries in language ideology, the representation of loanwords, the encyclopedic dimension of dictionaries, and the labeling of derogatory lexis. The article emphasizes that prescriptivism and descriptivism should be viewed as a continuum rather than a clear-cut dichotomy. [Extracted from the article]