Language change theorists
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- Language Change Theorists
- Romaine
- Internal = The formation of new words (neologisms) and the influence of dictionaries (Samuel Johnson)
- External = The changing social context
- Bex
- Generic labels are used to describe groups of texts that share social functions. Generic labels state genre is connected to change in three ways.
- Change within genre
- New sub-genre
- New discourse communities develop, which do not already exist.
- Generic labels are used to describe groups of texts that share social functions. Generic labels state genre is connected to change in three ways.
- Goodman
- Informalisation - The process where words that were reserved for personal relationships are now used in wider contexts.
- Crystal
- 'Asynchronous' interaction in chat-rooms and forums.
- Synchronous interaction to describe face-to-face encounters
- MacKinnon: Attitudes to language
- Correct vs Incorrect
- Pleasant or Ugly
- Socially acceptable vs socially unacceptable
- Morally Accpetable vs Morally Unacceptable
- Appropriate vs inappropriate
- Ueful vs Useless
- Harvey and Shalom
- A problemin English is the amount of words that do not have a single form, e.g. technical. The effects of this are linked to use and context
- Aitchison
- People only use language lazily when drunk
- The Queen's English society
- An autocratic movement and prescriptiist view
- Hopper
- A pattern to telephone calls that change depending on context.
- Romaine
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