Language Change Dates Unfinished
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- Language Change Dates
- 18TH CENTURY
- Jonathan Swift
- Writer
- Prescriptivist
- Language should be fixed forever and protected from the ravages of fashion and social trends
- Didn't like contractions
- The long S
- faded out of fashion towards end of century
- didn't need two graphemes for one phoneme
- didn't need two graphemes for one phoneme
- May still be used in writing later on
- faded out of fashion towards end of century
- Johnson's dictionary 1755
- Robert Lowth and other prescriptivists
- 'They' and 'them' are not to be used as singular pronouns - should use he and him
- The infinitive should not be split e.g. to boldly go
- Double negatives are really affirmatives
- 'Different' should be immediately followed by 'from' - not 'to or 'than'
- Sentences shouldn't end in prepositions
- 'Who' should be inflected to form 'whom' when it is the object of a sentence
- Viewed Latin as the ideal language
- Media
- Between 1690 and 1780, number of newspapers printed annually in England rose from less than a million to 14 million
- Was alot more formal as only the well-educated could read and only the wealthy could afford an education
- Seen as prestigious - used overt prestige to sound more sophisticated
- Jonathan Swift
- 19TH CENTURY
- Compulsory Education Act 1870
- More people learning how to read and write
- Media
- Still largely formal and prestigious
- Compulsory Education Act 1870
- 20TH CENTURY
- Media
- BBC established in 1922 - used RP until around the 1970s
- became more informal and more like conversation - Norman Fairclough synthetic personalisation
- Media
- 18TH CENTURY
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