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Language change must-knows - Coggle Diagram
Language change must-knows
Descriptivist Theories
Crystal 2001:
Netspeak
We are now living in a linguistic economy
Humphrys 2007
'I h8 txt Msgs'
'pillaging' language
dislikes tautology ie. 'past history'
Dislikes incorrect pronoun usage
Harvey and Shalom (1997)
Taboo language has become increasingly common and acceptable.
Jean Aitchison (1996)
Crumbling Castle
Damp Spoon
Infectious disease
Aitchison 1991
One group influences another and new accent emerges ie. MK
Trudgill
Language change is inevitable as society progresses
standardisation attempts
Speak Good English 1999
'English corrupted by Singaporeans'
Plain English campaign 1979
Caxton's printing press 1476
108 books printed
very expensive
choose to Standardise language used in Courts and Education
Robert Lowth 1762
published the first English Grammar book
got rid of 'Thou'
Outlined a differentiation between modal verbs such as 'will' and 'shall'
Dr Johnson 1755
First Dictionary
Attempted to standardise spellings such as 'me'
prescriptivist theories
Humphrys 2007
'I h8 txt Msgs'
'pillaging' language
dislikes tautology ie. 'past history'
Dislikes incorrect pronoun usage
Lynn Truss (2003)
Peas, shoots, leaves
bemoans state of punctuation in UK, says rules are being relaced
Banana's
Cameron 1995
Descripvist- but says being prescriptivist shows care for the English language
John Cheke
Inkhorn controversy
'I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure unmixt and unmangeled with this borrowing of other tungs'
Freeborn:
ugliness view: some accents don't sound nice --> linked to stereotypes
Incorrectness: the idea that all accents are inferior to RP or standard English
Imprecieness: some accents are dismissed as 'lazy' or 'sloppy'