Language change 2
- Created by: Joshua Jackson
- Created on: 11-04-14 13:50
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- Language Change 2
- Graphological change
- An individual letter used as a symbol -X
- Overall layout
- focuses on appealing areas
- Font/Type face
- Caxton printing press from handwritten 1476
- Illistration
- colured images due to better technology
- Semantic Change
- Idiom
- a group of words that have a figurative meaning --E.G. She is pulling my leg
- Euphemism
- A polite form word form too inappropriate to talk about E.G. birds and Bees
- Political Correctness
- when words and phrases change E.G. fro mentally handicapped to learning difficulties
- Brodening
- The meaning of a word becomes more general but retains some of its original meaning E.G. Sick
- Narrowing
- A words meaning becomes more specific
- Metaphor
- Words often acquire new meaning because they are used metaphorically E.G. Broken heart
- Amelioration
- word acquires a more positive meaning
- Pejoration
- words obtains a negative meaning
- Weakening
- Words lose some of their original strength and meaning E.G. swear words
- Idiom
- Lexical Change
- Affixation
- the addition of bound morphenes9suufix and prefix) to an existing word E.G. sudden LY
- Acroyn
- a word formed from parts of words E.E. NASA
- Initalism
- a group of initials used to form a word but pronounced separately E.G. BBC
- Clipping
- Forming words by dropping one or more syllables from a polysyllabic word e.g. Flu
- Eponyms
- Name of something after whom is named E.G. Sandwich after lord sandwich
- Propriety names
- Something need after a brand E.G. Vacuum cleaner named after hoover is they made it
- Coumpond
- two words put together to form a new word E.G. Girl+ Friend
- Blending
- two words mixed together E.G. Smoke + fog = smog
- Archaisms
- Words that are obsolete and no longer used by public
- Affixation
- Phonological Change
- Omission
- Sounds are lost from words
- Assimulation
- a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- Estuary English
- Standard English with a certain accent - Mark Fancis
- Vals Speak
- rising use of intonation and emphases such as like and totally is a sign of lack of condifence --- filler
- Martha's Vineyard
- deliberately diverging language speak to fit in
- Omission
- Grammatical Change
- Adverb have changed positions E.G The RIPEST fruit falls first
- Now use contractions E.G. Won't and Don't
- Change in word order (syntax) particularly pronouns. E.G. Dreadful stores they were -- they were dreadful stories
- Started to replace adverbs with adjectives " you've done great"
- Irregualr verbs still changing E.G. I've Write it
- pronouns
- 'whom being replaced with whom
- Orthographical Change
- Long S
- Homonyms
- same sound, same spelling different meaning E.G. stalk
- Vowel sounds spelt differently E.G. a, eight, ay
- Homophone
- same sound, different spelling different meaning E.G. weight and wait
- Graphological change
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