a2 language change

Standardization - a process by which grammarians and prescriptivist attempted to structure and influence English usuage according to what they believed consitituted correct or incorrect usage of English.

Prescriptivism - favour rules that identify 'correct' language usuage. They dissaprove of uses of language that break these rules.

• became firmly established in the 18th cent
• books of grammar - Lowthe sought to define correct language usuage
• 19th cent - language linked to morality and character - deviation as old standars are uncouth and…