English Language - language change terminology

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  • Created on: 01-03-18 10:43
Orthography
the method of spellling
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Etymology
the origin of a word/its history
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Non-standard capitalisation
capital letters allocated mid-sentence to words other than proper nouns
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Archaism
words that have fallen out of common usage
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Anachronistic language
language that seems 'out of time' (e.g a text written in a very old fashioned way but includes slang appealing to a modern audience)
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Semantic shift
a shift in a word's meaning over time
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Inverted syntax
when the ordering of words is rearranged to create an alternative weighting to a sentence (e.g Master Yoda's dialogue in Star Wars)
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Slang
colloquial language coined by the younger generations
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Globalised vocabulary
new words that are now taken for granted due to a change in society/culture (e.g cab, talk to the hand, zombie)
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the origin of a word/its history

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Etymology

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capital letters allocated mid-sentence to words other than proper nouns

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Card 4

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words that have fallen out of common usage

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Card 5

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language that seems 'out of time' (e.g a text written in a very old fashioned way but includes slang appealing to a modern audience)

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