Language Change
- Created by: Bella Burland Sully
- Created on: 21-04-16 16:09
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- Language Change
- Influences
- Historical Events
- War
- Disease
- Invasions
- Political Changes
- Industrial Changes
- Technological Advances
- Education
- Social Factors
- Migration
- Social Classes
- Gender
- Occupation
- Technological Advances
- Fashion
- Political Correctness
- Social Factors
- Fashion
- Social Factors
- Migration
- Social Classes
- Gender
- Occupation
- Political Correctness
- Ease of articulation
- Omission
- Assimilation
- Historical Events
- Semantic Change
- Narrowing
- Broadening
- Amelioration
- Semantic Shift
- Pejoration
- Phonetic Change
- Uptalk
- Using a rising intonation at thge end of an utterance when not asking a question
- An influence of Austrailian television shows
- Great Vowel Shift
- Uptalk
- Theories
- Halliday
- Functional Theory
- 'Language changes due to the needs of the user'
- Mainly due to technological advances
- Makes other lexis obsolete
- 'Language changes due to the needs of the user'
- Functional Theory
- Giles
- Accomodation Theory
- 'High prestige and complex words have become archaic due to the informalisation of our language
- Writers are downwardly converging towards a simpler lexicon
- Because of wider readership as well as a reaction to the more informal lexis used today
- Writers are downwardly converging towards a simpler lexicon
- 'High prestige and complex words have become archaic due to the informalisation of our language
- Accomodation Theory
- Substratum Theory
- 'Language changes due to contact'
- Used to be invasions, but now mainly due to migration and travel
- 'Language changes due to contact'
- Aitchison
- 'Crumbling castles, damp spoons and infectious diseases'
- 'Language is neither progressing nor decaying'
- Instead it is evolving into a form more suited to efficiency of use
- 'Language is neither progressing nor decaying'
- 'Crumbling castles, damp spoons and infectious diseases'
- Trudgill
- 'Language continues to change and develop regardless of our feelings or attitudes towards it'
- Change is neither good nor bad
- It's an inevitable process required to continue to decribe and explain the social changes around us
- Language must and will change to meet the needs of the users
- 'Language continues to change and develop regardless of our feelings or attitudes towards it'
- Halliday
- Possible Reasons for Language Change
- Innovations
- Speakers may deliberately innovate eg lexis
- Borrowing
- Addition of new lexis
- Find new ways of describing the world as it grows
- Globalisation
- Accidental Innovation
- Pronunciation
- Inflections
- Lexical Choices
- People Copy
- Mistakes
- There is a potential for not reproducing (old) material exactly
- Pre C18th
- No dictionaries
- Innovations
- Lexical Expansion
- How?
- Borrowing
- Latinate Borrowing
- Coinage
- Affixation
- Prefixation
- Borrowing
- How?
- Archaism and Obsoletism
- Archaic
- When lexis has fallen out of common useage
- Seems old fashioned
- May still be present in dictionaries
- Obsolete
- Beyond being archaic
- Not used at all anymore
- Not found in contemporary dictionaries
- Archaic
- Influences
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