English Language 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage ChangeA2/A-levelAQA Created by: AlwayRevisingConstantlyCreated on: 06-04-15 15:30 The process of making new words Coining 1 of 18 Joining two full words to make one Compounding 2 of 18 Using components of two words to make one word Blending 3 of 18 Reducing multi-syllable words to one syllable Clipping 4 of 18 initial letters pronounced as words Acronyms 5 of 18 initial letters pronounced as alphabeticalisms Initialism 6 of 18 taking words from other languages Borrowing 7 of 18 direct translation the original foreign words Calque 8 of 18 Using prefixes and the suffixes to make new words Affixation 9 of 18 Attitude that gives rules to follow & aims to dictate language Prescriptivist 10 of 18 Processes that charts rules & allows change Descriptivist 11 of 18 Aitchison Metaphor: people are lazy Damp Spoon Syndrome 12 of 18 Aitchison Metaphor: language must be preserved Crumbling Castle View 13 of 18 Aitchison Metaphor: poor language is caught from those around us Infectious Disease Assumption 14 of 18 Goodman: language forms traditionally reserved for close personal relationships are now used in much wider social contexts Informalisation 15 of 18 Fairclough: Professional encounters are increasingly likely to contain informal English Conversationalisation 16 of 18 First Descriptivist Dictionary (date then author) 1755 Johnson 17 of 18 Elementaire (date then author) 1582 Mulcaster 18 of 18
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