Language Change Theory
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- Created on: 16-03-22 10:27
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- Change Theory
- Trudgill
- Change is inevitable, like a living organism
- Atchison
- 'Damp soon' people become lazy with lang
- 'crumbling castle' lang was once a beautiful ornate structure but now is decaying and falling apart
- 'Infectious disease' new features picked up like a disease.
- Milroy
- Was once a 'golden age of language'
- Dennis Freeborn
- people judge others on their accents and dialect
- David Crystal
- lang is living so must change as society does
- wave metaphor- lang 'ebbs and flows' bring new words in and out naturally
- studies kids and phones- those that messaged more had high vocab and lang understanding
- Heffer
- modern lang is an 'act of violence' rules need to b taken seriously
- Prescriptivists-lang should be pure English- 17th and 18th lang is correct
- Descriptivists- why language has changed, simply describes change
- Trudgill
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