English Language - language change terminology 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage changeA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Jessy99Created on: 01-03-18 10:43 Orthography the method of spellling 1 of 9 Etymology the origin of a word/its history 2 of 9 Non-standard capitalisation capital letters allocated mid-sentence to words other than proper nouns 3 of 9 Archaism words that have fallen out of common usage 4 of 9 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) 5 of 9 Semantic shift a shift in a word's meaning over time 6 of 9 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) 7 of 9 Slang colloquial language coined by the younger generations 8 of 9 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) 9 of 9
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