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english language - Coggle Diagram

- - - - s curve model
      - language change takes time
      - change will never reach 100% uptake
    - - tide metaphor
      - language change is never identical, and affects different people
      - change may last for differing amounts of time, and have different impact scales
    - - coined the term 'estuary english'
      - combination of cockney and RP
      - now considered more prestigous than RP
    - - attitudes to regional accents
      - incorrectness
      - ugliness
      - impoliteness
      - have these attitudes changed or shifted over time?
    - - change occurs in two ways
      - unconsciously from unpowerful
      - consciously from powerful
    - - users chape digital media experiences
      - urban dictionary
        
        prescriptivist job as a dictionary
        
        descriptivist ethos allowing people to freely use neologisms
    - - RP is the dialect of education
      - language change is influenced by low status dialects
    - - language changes according to the needs of users
      - lexical gaps
      - functional shifts
    - - random fluctuation theory
      - language may change due to codified errors
    - - prescriptivist language attitudes
        
        damp spoon syndrome
        
        crumbling castle view
        
        infectious disease assumption
      - language change model
        
        potential
        
        implementation
        
        diffusion
        
        codification
- - - - abuse on a chatroom
    - - happening at separate times
    - - informal, colloquial way of communicating
    - - informal writing
  - - - creativity encouraged by telephony constraints
      - difficult to analyse language features in emails as it is dependent on context
    - - rise in digital communication has encouraged language play
    - - anchored relationships online
    - - telephone communication
      - lack of paralinguistic features
      - extreme focus on grice's maxims
      - online identities
    - - afforded possibilities by technology