Abstract:
This research dealt with the Prescriptivism in Detective Conan Comic. The objectives of the
research were to find out the types of Prescriptivism which are used in detective conan comic
and to describe the dominant types of prescriptivism used in detective conan comic. Qualitative
design method was applied in this research. There were 3 examples of prescriptivism. Since it
was descriptive qualitative, the library research was applied to collect the data. From the 3
examples of prescriptivism in detective conan comic, the total number of prescriptivism used in
the detective conan comic is 215 words, 2 words (1%) are double negative, 175 (81%) are split
infinitives and 38 (11%) are postponed prepositions. The most dominant examples of
prescriptivism in detective conan comic was split infinitives
