Language Change - Lexis
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 23-05-14 15:16
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- Language Change - Lexis
- influences
- 18th century
- science + medicine
- classical languages
- attitudes towards social roles
- 19th century
- industrialisation
- Latin + Greek
- science + medicine
- British Empire
- Travel
- 20th/21st century
- technology
- IT
- ability to record speech
- globalisation
- world wars
- American English
- consumerism + leisure time
- social attitudes
- gender
- ethnicity
- sexuality
- Youth sociolects + non-standard forms
- technology
- 18th century
- Where do new words come from?
- borrowing/loan words
- introduction of a word from one language to another
- Eponym
- the name of a person whom something is named
- Proprietary names
- name given to a product by one organisation becomes the commonly used name for same product e.g. hoover
- borrowing/loan words
- Semantic Change
- Amelioration
- word takes on a different more positive meaning than it had done previously
- Pejoration
- word takes on a different more negative meaning than it had done previously
- weakening
- word loses strength of original meaning
- narrowing
- word becomes more specific in its meaning
- broadening
- word keeps its original meaning but acquires others
- Amelioration
- reusing words
- Affixation
- addition of bound morpheme to an existing word
- Prefixes
- addition of BM to beginning of word
- Suffixes
- addition of BM to end of root word
- conversion
- word changes its word class without adding a suffix
- compound
- combining of separate words to create a new word
- back formation
- removal of an imagined affix from an existing word
- blend
- two words fusing to make a new one
- Affixation
- influences
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