A2 English Language Change theorists

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1. Aitchison internal socioliogical factors - gap between language and technology

  • All language geared towards younger users
  • Fashion and foreign influence
  • Technology and language
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2. Jean Aitchison

  • Prescriptivist
  • Talks about people's views, not prescriptivist or descriptivist
  • Descriptivist

3. Peter Trudgill

  • Central
  • Descriptivist
  • Prescriptivist

4. Aitchison's crumbling castle metaphor

  • Language should be preserved
  • Language changes because people are lazy
  • People pick up language changes to fit in with certain social groups

5. Leech's politeness stratergies

  • Tact, modesty, agreement
  • Hedging, fillers, tone of voice
  • Indirect, quiet, unimportant
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