Language Change analysis points
- Created by: Ellena_G
- Created on: 03-05-16 12:01
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- LANGUAGE CHANGE: what to evaluate in the exam?
- Grammar
- Lexis
- Borrowings
- e.g. Opera (Latin)
- Affixation
- e.g.Racism/ sexism
- Compounding
- e.g. Happy-Hour, Handbag
- Blending
- e.g. 'Smog' smoke and fog
- Conversion
- 'Text', once a noun, now a verb
- Acronym/ Initialism
- A: NATO, I: B.B.C
- Clipping
- Borrowings
- Graphology
- Discourse
- Forms
- Genre
- Orthography
- Spellings
- e.g. extra 'e': 'Olde'
- 'Y' in place of an 'I' e.g. 'dysgus'
- Long 's'
- Spellings
- Semantics
- Broadening
- Narrowing
- Amelioration
- Pejoration
- Metaphor
- Idioms
- Euphemisms
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