Attitudes To Language Flashcards
1
Q
Crumbling castle, damp spoon, infectious disease
A
Jean Aitchison 1997
2
Q
Prescriptivists believe language is “a matter of what people ought to say”
A
Trask 1999
3
Q
“there is not the slightest ambiguity when we see a sign outside a shop advertising potato’s”
A
“potato’s as a test case” theory - David Crystal 2006
4
Q
Language attitudes can be categorised in 6 ways:
Correct/incorrect
Pleasant/ugly
Socially acceptable/unacceptable
Morally acceptable/unacceptable
Appropriate/inappropriate in context
Useful/useless
A
Donald Mackinnon
