Influences on language change
- Created by: Emilie Tomlinson
- Created on: 04-01-13 12:31
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- Influences On Language Change
- Historical Events
- War
- Disease
- Military
- Political changes
- Industrial changes
- Natural disasters
- 'Acts of God'
- Generational
- The transferal of language between generations; accent, dialect vocabulary etc
- Geographical
- Regional variation
- Immigration
- Integrating languages/accents/dialects
- Social Factors
- Gender
- Social class
- Age
- Ethnicity
- Occupation
- Sexuality
- Technological
- New inventions introduce new lexis
- Older technologies way fade, thus causing some words to disappear from use
- Education & Politics
- Increase in rights to education
- Improving general language skills of more people
- Increase in rights to education
- Historical Events
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