Language Change
- Created by: Lauren Ellis
- Created on: 30-05-13 11:52
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- Language Change
- Causes of language change
- external - outside influences - English influenced by invasions, immigration, media
- internal - simplification - 'eth' may have died as does not affect way word said so unnecessary
- omission - sounds gradually lost as not said
- Assimilation - one sound affected by adjacent sound produce new pronunciation
- Spelling - 'a dictionary of the English langauge
- Grammar - standardised grammar
- phonology - standardised pronunciation in private school
- industrialisation - 18th and 19th centaury - new words relating to labour
- 8th-11th centaury - invasions from other counties
- 16th - 17th centaury - words into English from Latin and Greek
- 18th - 19th centaury - words borrowed
- 20th centuary - immigration to UK
- American English developed
- 20th centuary - immigration to UK
- 18th - 19th centaury - words borrowed
- 16th - 17th centaury - words into English from Latin and Greek
- Attitudes towards language change
- Prescriptivism
- stating set of rules people should follow in order to use language 'properly'
- prescriptivists believe language should be written and spoken in certain way - standard English, RP (other ways are seen as wrong)
- Argue that essential to stick to rules of standard form - everyone understand eachother
- language decays as changes - to stop this - try stop linguistic change
- Descriptivism
- involves how language actually used
- valued equally - not 'correct' or 'incorrect'
- language change is inevitable - waste of time - try to stop it
- how? why? language changed rather than saying all bad
- change as progress - language becoming more accurate and efficient
- Prescriptivism
- Causes of language change
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