Language change is how language changes over time due to a variation of factors
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What are reasons for language change?
New technology, individuals, foreign influences, science new inventions, trade, globalisation, society and cultural changes/shifts
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Attitudes towards language change?
Prescriptivism (dictate how language should be used), want language to remain the same, descriptivism (accept language change is inevitable), and David Crystal: (3rd Way,, results in more creative and expressive forms of language)
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Taboo language?
Used for comedic effect, used as fillers, used to show pain or displeasure, too much on TV,
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What are neologisms?
New words that arise from language change
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Word borrowings?
This is when we take words from other languages, such as Judges: French, and Opera: Latin
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What is affixation?
When we add a prefix or a suffix to an existing word: 'Racism' 'Sexism'
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What is compounding?
Joining two words to make a new one: Lap-top, Happy-hour
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Blending?
Two words moulded together to make a new word: motel
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Shortening and abbreviations?
Clipping of a word
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Acronyms?
'NATO' 'NASA'
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What can semantic change cause to language and lexis?
When words original meanings become less favourable, example: awful
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What is amelioration?
Word has taken a more positive meaning than its original, example: wicked: seen better now because of slang, pretty: now means pretty, used to mean sly
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New technology, individuals, foreign influences, science new inventions, trade, globalisation, society and cultural changes/shifts
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