English Language Change - Late Modern English
English Language - Late Modern English from 1700's to present day
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- Created on: 08-04-14 14:21
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- English - Late Modern English
- Vocabulary
- Expansion of British Empire - new words from countries under British rule, e.g. India
- Bangle (1787)
- Dinghy (1810)
- Thug (1810)
- Advances in science and medicine
- Centigrade (1812)
- Biology (1819)
- Antibiotic (1894)
- Laryngitis (1822)
- New inventions
- Typewriter (1868)
- Motor Car (1895)
- Radio (1907)
- Video Game (1973)
- Podcasting (2008)
- International conflict and war
- Blight (1914-18)
- Blitz (1939)
- Kamikaze (1945)
- Social, cultural and political developments
- Hippie (1965)
- Airhead (1972)
- Grunge (1980's)
- Credit Crunch (2000's)
- Expansion of British Empire - new words from countries under British rule, e.g. India
- Accents and Dialect
- Improved communication and increased mobility meant people were exposed to a wide range of accents and dialect
- Communication
- Technologies affected pronunciation e.g. Estuary English that originated in South East London is spreading because of TV
- Inventions such as the telephone meant people can communicate all around the world easily
- Mobility
- Inventions such as the railway and cars mean people travel more, so regional dialects aren't as self-contained and diluted
- Very strong accents have gotten softer, people from different regions can understand each other better
- International travel has affected English, non-native speakers use Standard English to communicate
- Communication
- Improved communication and increased mobility meant people were exposed to a wide range of accents and dialect
- Dictionaries
- Samuel Johnson's 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) contained about 40,000 words
- Aimed to "tame the out of control language"
- It helped to standardise spelling and meaning, used as a standard reference
- Grammatical Change
- Syntax has become less complex
- Modern writers avoid long sentences with multiple subordinate clauses
- 18th Century Proscriptives
- Rules on how people shouldn't use language, invented by Robert Lowth (an 18th Century Grammarian), e.g. sentences shouldn't end with a preposition
- Grammar Books
- Invented in the 16th Century but only became popular in the 18th Century, e.g. the difference between 'who' and 'whom'
- Prescriptivism - the attitude towards language that assumes there are a correct set of linguistical rules
- 1870 - Education introduced for all children
- 1922 - BBC was born, used 'SE' for all broadcasting
- 1960's - First home computers were marketed with spellcheckers and grammar checkers to reinforce spelling and written skills. Computer age led to another avalanche of new words
- 1980's - National Curriculum demanded standard English and spelling skills for GCSE grade C
- Vocabulary
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