Language Change
- Created by: Joshua Jackson
- Created on: 11-04-14 13:03
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- Language Change
- Causes of language change
- External:
- Outside influences---- invasions, immigration, media and travel
- Internal
- Simplificaton-- "eth" died out due to it not being needed for pronunciation any more
- Omission
- Sounds gradually lost as not said
- Assimulation
- a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- Spelling
- Standardisation of English language 1755 Samuel johnson
- Phonology
- Standardised pronunciation in private schools
- Grammer
- Standardised grammer
- Industrialisation
- 18th and 19th century- new words relation to labour
- 8th-11th century invasion from other countries
- 16th-17th century- words into English from Greek and Latin
- 18th - 19th centaury borrowed words
- 20th century -- immigration to UK
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- 20th century -- immigration to UK
- 18th - 19th centaury borrowed words
- 16th-17th century- words into English from Greek and Latin
- External:
- Attitudes towards language change
- Descriptivist
- Plain English Campaign
- Making the English language more easily communicated --- eliminating complexities
- Invokes how language is actually used
- language change is valued equally and not as correct or incorrect
- Views-- Language change is inevitable and it is a waste of time trying to stop it
- How? Why/
- Language changed rather than saying it is bad
- Change is progress
- Language is becoming more accurate and efficient
- Plain English Campaign
- Perscriptivist
- Argue that it is essential to stick to rules of standard form -- everyone understands eachother
- Language changes when decays
- Queen English Camapign
- State a set of rules people should follow in order too use language properly
- believe language should be written and spoken in a certain way
- Standard English --RR
- Descriptivist
- Causes of language change
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