Language Change Theories
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- Created on: 19-02-19 14:36
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- Language Change Theories
- Attitudes
- Prescriptivism
- Aitchison's 3 Metaphors
- Damp Spoon
- Crumbling Castle
- Infectious Disease
- John Humphrys
- Texting
- They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; ****** our vocabulary.
- Hyphen
- Texting
- McKinnon
- Descriptivism
- David Crystal
- 'Language changes to reflect society'
- OED
- Documents and records change
- Eg: Bootylicious
- Documents and records change
- David Crystal
- Socially acceptable vs socially unacceptable
- Appropriate in context vs inappropriate in context
- Pleasant vs ugly
- Useful vs Unuseful
- Incorrect vs correct
- Morally acceptable vs unnacceptable
- Descriptivism
- Aitchison's 3 Metaphors
- Descriptivism
- David Crystal
- 'Language changes to reflect society'
- OED
- Documents and records change
- Eg: Bootylicious
- Documents and records change
- David Crystal
- Prescriptivism
- Reasons
- Globalisation
- Interconnectedness
- Interaction with other languages
- Language contact situation
- Immigration
- African American Vernacular English
- eg; 'slay' 'bae' 'squad
- African American Vernacular English
- Immigration
- Technology
- Phones
- Social media
- Transport
- Time-space compression
- Phones
- Education improvements
- Increased social mobility
- Globalisation
- William Labov- social bonding
- Lexical changes signal social identity
- Eg: reclaiming of the n word and use of blud in MLE
- Lexical changes signal social identity
- S-Curve- Chen + Bailey
- Neologism starts small, experiences massive increase in use then drops off
- Wave model- Bailey
- Geographical distance
- 'Epicentre'
- Middle class Edinburgh wont acquire MLE
- Geographical distance
- Functional Theory
- Lang change is to meet the needs of society
- Substratum Theory
- Foreign Borrowings transported through media and travel
- Lexical Gaps
- Need for new words to fill gaps
- Eg; texting and tweeting
- Need for new words to fill gaps
- Tree Model
- Main language is family
- Members are languages
- Births and marriages are relationships
- Attitudes
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