As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people

As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for “correct” linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___.

 prescriptive   

sociolinguistic

descriptive

psycholinguistic

答案及解析：本题考查语言的区别性概念。C选项，descriptive，描述性，重在分析和描述，综上，C选项正确。A选项，prescriptive，规定性，强调制定规则，故排除。B选项，sociolinguistic，社会的，故排除。D选项，psycholinguistic，心理的，故排除。故正确答案为C。