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English Language Paper 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Early Modern 1500-1700
        
        1476: Caxton Printing Press
        
        1700's spelling and punctuation began to settle
        
        1755: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Published
        
        1762: Roberth Lowth's Grammar Book
        
        What happened here?
        
        Increase in art, science, medicine and culture.
        
        Huge influx of new words.
        
        Rise of literacy and desire to standardise.
- - - - Biological age, chronological age and social age
    - - Identified a range of features of teen talk including: irregular turn taking, overlaps, abbreviations, verbal duelling, taboo, code switching and slang.
    - - Researched use of tags such as 'innit', 'yeah' and 'right'
        -innit more working class, as opposed to yeah more middle class
    - - components of influence
        
        these factors are influential:
        
        -media+press
        
        -new means of communication
        
        -music
        
        -street art+graffiti
    - - main points:
        
        the world isn't going to change for teenagers
        
        -they aren't going to get anywhere with text-speak "if one once to advance in a career"
        
        -can't go into an interview and say 'yo' or how ya doin'
        
        -jobs and professions have bias that wont change
  - - - From a sociolinguistic point of view, this tells us that rhoticity in New York is an important, useful indicator of social status.
- - - - brought to North America by settlers in the 1600's.
      - 90% of these were British
      - Differences in Orthography - American English
  - - - language dies every 14 days
      - we don't give enough credit for their knowledge if it is in their own language.
      - 6,000 languages today but in 90 years there will be 600.
  - - - Singaporean Colloquial English
      - informal creole language made up of English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.
      - "language of the street"
      - 1819 became colonised by Britain
        
        English used as lingua franca
  - - - 2 million speakers
      - official language
      - developed parallel to the Jamaican creole
      - coexistence developed on a linguistic continuum.
      - Blended into English culture via immigartion
    - - blending of words to create fluid phrasing
      - dropping of final consonants e.g. wha - what
      - object pronoun "me" interchangeable with "I"
      - /t/ substitutes /th/
    - - The creator stood by his choice and said the choices were made to give the show an authentic voice and that language change is unavoidable
  - - - 400 million people speak English as a first language
      - 400 million L2 speakers
      - 600 - 700 million ELF speakers
      - 1.5 billion (+second language)
    - - it is natural for english to adopt, 10,000 words in South African English which are native to that background
        
        'Robot ahead'? a Robot is a traffic light in SA English, "turn left at the Robot" after you know you can understand but initially you are shocked and dispute it. As time progresses languages blend.
        
        everywhere in the world new cultures affect english, serbian english is the lanaguage you use to describe serbia - idioms is a good example