Language Change
- Created by: Lauren Ellis
- Created on: 29-05-13 18:10
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- Language Change
- Lexical Change
- Coinage - creation of new words
- Neologisms - new words themselves
- Borrowing - borrow words from other languages. normally food or objects e.g. spaghetti from italy.
- Scientific progress - advances in medicine, science and technology cause new words
- Affxation - prefixes or suffixs added to words
- Compounding - combining two words together to create one. e.g. hand and bag
- Blending - two seperate words merged together
- Conversion - new words created when exisring word changes class, spelling doesn't change onlt the function
- Clipping - drop sylabbles to make word shorter e.g. intro
- Initialism - first leter stands for words e.g. FBI
- Acronyms - initial letters combines to ceate new word
- Back -formation - occurs when word been added by suffix e.g. baby-sitter
- Obselete - words no longer used
- Archaic - words not used in modern English
- Orthography - spelling of words
- Semantc Change
- when word change meaning
- slang and colloquialisms used
- Amelioration - word develops positive meaning e.g. sick
- Pejoration - word develops negative meaning
- Metaphor - descrive things as if actually something else
- Metonymy - word associated with objects e.g. cash now means money but meant moneybox
- Idiom - sayings that dont make sense e.g. its raining cats and dogs
- Eupemism - alternative words used to avoid offending someone
- Cliche - if idioms used a lot called cliches - overused phrases
- Lexical Change
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