Language Change
- Created by: Lauren Hill
- Created on: 15-05-13 09:36
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- Langauge Change
- Old and Early Modern English: 400 - 1700
- The use of 'v' instead of 'u', '**' instead of 's' and 'y' instead of 'i'
- Inflections - letters that are added to the ends of words e.g. 'e', 'a', 'en' and 'ly' - these are used to make plurals, adjectives, adverbs or change tenses.
- Unusual spellings - phonteic or devient spellings.
- Archaisms ( words that are no longer used )
- Archaic use of recognised words.
- Capitalisation of common nouns e.g. Death, Dinner.
- Apostophes replacing the letter 'e'.
- Inverted sentences
- The lack of punctuation - longer compound and complex sentences
- Repeated conjunctions
- Early Modern English: 1500-1700
- William Caxton invented the first printing pre** in 1476 - this began the standardisation of lexis
- In the 1580's the first guides to spelling were introduced - 8000 words but no definition.
- Identical copies of texts were produced and people began spelling and saying words the same.
- In the late 1550's Shakespeare introduced approx 3000 words to the English vocab and also introduced the hypen to link words not usually used together.
- Early Modern English had what is called the polite and familiar forms of the second person pronoun 'you'.
- Thou was the familiar form e.g. thou art, hast, dost.
- Familiar form also added the inflection 'st' e.g. hast, dost (do).
- Also affected the po**esive form e.g. thine (yours) and thy (your).
- You was the polite form and use to addre** strangers or superiors.
- Late Modern English: 1700-Present Day
- 1755 Samuel Johnson published the first dictionary and it contained definitions and examples of every word in the language - standardising the english language.
- Increased and more varied punctuation.
- More informal - differences between spoken and written modes reduced.
- Neologisms
- Borrowings
- Semantic Change
- More literary devices.
- Standardised spellings.
- 19th, 20th and Contemporary English
- Increased literacy meant people used a wider range of vocba
- Technical and social changes introduced words e.g. workhouse, factory.
- More moblie population changed dialects and accents
- Foregin travel introduced more borrowings
- Cheaper newspapers expanded vocba
- Radio and television affected both written and spoken language e.g. 1940's radio would sound different to todays radio show.
- New technology is the biggest influence
- E-mail and texts have resulted in shortened vocab and introduced phonetic spellings
- More spoken communication than written affecting sentence structures and abbreviations
- Old and Early Modern English: 400 - 1700
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