ENGLISH LANGUAGE: TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
- Created by: ameliab2001
- Created on: 02-11-21 13:12
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- Technology and language change
- Lexis and semantics
- new inventions and innovations require new words or meaning extension
- Snapchat, Facebook and social media
- Vocab such as tweet, story, snapmap, like, follow, share, retweet, snapsave
- bluetooth, wireless
- e.g. google becomes a verb in its own right to describe searching the internet
- Grammar and syntax
- new forms of communication = changes in structure and order of communication
- abbreviation of words, text speak
- Discourse
- texts on a computer screen organised in a certain way, links, pop-ups and menus allow navigation
- Graphology
- allows more engagement and interactivity, audio and video files
- emojis, gifs, bitmoji, apps/widgets
- Context
- language adapts faster because of easily accessible forms of communication, the 'global village'
- language can spread easier through broadcast, TV, radio
- allowed accents and dialects to be heard around the country, before people would stay in their region due to lack of geog mobility
- language can spread easier through broadcast, TV, radio
- language adapts faster because of easily accessible forms of communication, the 'global village'
- Lexis and semantics
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