10 reasons for social change Flashcards
According to Beth there are 10 reasons for social change , What is the first reason for social change?
- Feminism/women’s liberation
What is the first example that you can use to support 1.?
Slut (semantic reclamation/functional shift) which had a pejorative meaning in the past which referred to exclusively women who were sexually promiscuous, now, women are reclaiming with an ameliorative sense to show that they’re proud of being sexually promiscuous, society shouldn’t shame they it does for men.
What is the second example that you can use to support 1.?
Actress can be considered a marked form but however it is becoming more common to distinguish the gender within occupation titles. Actress has been formed through affixation by adding the bound morpheme ‘ress’ which is a suffix.
There are many open compounds that have nouns functioning as pre-modfiying adjectives in occupational rules such as ‘female’ in ‘female doctor’ to distinguish the gender from the stereotype that is normally associated/
What is the second reason for social change?
- Sexual revolution
What is the first example to support 2.?
An example is gay which is an conversion as its original detonation being; happy and free to someone being a homosexual. However, ithere is contention that this word has also had a semantic deterioration with the word also picked up an pejorative denotation to refer to an unfortunate situation, a person or inanimate object as ‘lame, stupid, or idiot
What is the second example to support 2.?
LGBT which is another example, is an initialism and was coined early in the 1990’s and it refers to the four sexualities; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Recently this initialism has expanded to LGBTQ+ to include other minority sexualities. Used as a label for people who identify under the category of sexualities as well as a sense of pride.
What is the third reason for social change?
With the rise of technology many terms have coined due to the rise of its invention. Such as email which is an example of an blended word which is a combination of the clipped word ‘electronic’ and the concrete noun ‘mail’ which then have been compounded to form what we know as one of the most frequent ways of communicating online. Another is internet that is a combination of the nouns ‘international’ and ‘network’ which have been clipped and compounded.
What is the fourth reason for social change?
- Environmental awareness
What is the first example to support 4.?
More and more environmentalists have coined new terms to raise awareness of global warming. Such as ‘climate change’ which is an open compound created with the abstract nouns ‘climate’ and ‘change’. The word was coined in 1960’s to refer to the dangerous change in the climate caused by humans.
What is the second example to support 4.?
Another frequent term is global warming which is also an example of a compound word despite including ‘warming’ which an material verb conjugated in the progressive tense along with the abstract noun ‘global’ it is used internationally to refer the Earth’s alarmingly rise in temperature due to intense human activity.
What is the 5th reason for social change?
Consumerism
What is the sixth reason for social change?
Youth culture
What example can you support for 6.?
Such as the slang ‘selfie’; The word itself is familiar in the culture of art and photography; the blended word which is a combination of the abstract noun ‘self’ and the concrete noun ‘expression’ and is defined by a person taking a self-portrait using a mobile device. The slang was created in the 00’s although by who remains unknown.
What is the 7th reason for social change?
- Immigration.
What example can you use to support 7.?
MLE is a good example of social change within immigration as the sociolect is spoken widely across multi-cultural London which has influences from languages all around the world. MLE which is initialism which stands for ‘multi-cultural london english’ coined by Paul Kerswill and Jenny Chesire.
