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20th Century English (BLURRING OF THE CLASS CULTURE (everyone was more…
20th Century English
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BROADCASTING
BBC 1922, regulated (licence TV)
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ROLES OF GENDER
women are not equal at the beginning of the 20th century (e.g. 'he' used a generic third person pronoun)
1903 suffragette movement started, 1928 votes for women
1960s - more job opportunities, better education, better access to language, women not as stereotyped
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WORLD WAR 1, WORLD WAR 2 AND POST WAR
DOYLE AND WALKER
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many words related to describe unfamiliar surroundings and circumstances e,g 'trench coats'
WW2 produced more jargon, slang and taboo language
unfamilar teminioloy required new terminology, while fear and frusration provide reasning to us expletives
post war, more free convergence, due to melting classes
RISE OF URBANISATION
industrial revolution meant the rise of urbanisation, merge of cities
City culture - semantics an vocab, better housing and medicine (medical jargon)
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SWINGING SIXTIES
hope a freedom, more migration led to racism but developed our language
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Pronouns are changing, perhaps for reasons of increasing gneder equality
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POPULAR CULTURE - more genres of music (rock), different lyrics due to a wider range of topics being discussed in the songs
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DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNET - impact of how we interact slang, informality, speed, attitudes towards it
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