Attitudes towards Language Change
- Created by: Linkeehh
- Created on: 17-06-15 13:37
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- Change Attitudes
- Prescriptivism
- Crumbling Castle
- Language was once upon a time perfect, now it needs to be preserved before it gets worse, like a heritage site.
- Nobody can exactly prove when the language was at its prime
- People argue that Shakespeare time English was perfect
- Inkhorn Contrversy
- People argue that Shakespeare time English was perfect
- Damp Spoon Syndrome
- Distaste towards the language change. Equal to a person leaving a damp spoon in the sugar bowl.
- Implies that sloppy language is all due to laziness.
- Only lazy language is drunk
- Infectious Disease
- Assumes that language changes are somehow contagious, that they get transferred via simple contact.
- Convergence and Divergence are not passive.
- John Humphrys
- Believes in the language becoming "obese"
- "Lost for Words"
- "Beyond Words"
- Lynne Truss
- "zero tolerance" approach to punctuation
- "Eats Shoots and Leaves"
- Crumbling Castle
- Descriptivism
- Jean Aitchinson
- David Crystal
- "change is evolution"
- Observing language changes without seeing it as decay or progression
- "anything goes"
- We should avoid imposing rules on the language
- "describe without judgement"
- Language evolves and adapts during its existence. New forms come in, some drop out
- Debate
- Progress
- Decay
- Prescriptivism
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