Change Flashcards
What was Milroys theory?
Never was ‘golden age’ of language, always been ☹️ attitudes to lang. ie: in 18th/19th century, 40% of brides+ grooms ❌ 🖊️ their name
What is the queens English society?
Prescriptivist that still have honeys views
What was Jean Aitchinsons theory?
Damp spoon, crumbling castle, infectious disease: ✅ changes are caught+ spread but ❌ disease, people pick change in Lang because they wanna 😁
What’s Labovs New York study?
Lower + middle class- used ‘r’ less frequently in formal speech, inserted ‘r’ frequently when reading-> example of conscious 🧠 change.
Relating to behaviour lower- middle class= linguistic change in progress
What was Labov Martha’s Vineyard study?
Changing vowels sounds, diphthong, express islander identity. Changes subconsciously due to wanting to fit in with their family ‘covert prestige’
What’s the S curve model?
Model describes speed 🚗 which new words+ meanings grow. Ie: gradual start, increases rapidly, levels off (trend finishes)
What’s the lexical gap theory?
A word will be invented or borrowed to fill a gap in in usage asw as phonological gap in our language. ie: there’s a word for orphan, not a word if a mother lost their child
What is substratum theory?
Language changes via contact
Language broadened from borrowings because of British empire + trade. ie: bungalow + bangles = 🇮🇳
English influenced via social networking, immigration etc
What was Hocketts theory?
Random events/ errors cause change
ie: book= synonym for cool due to using predictive text
iPhones autocorrecting words ie: ‘F…’ to ‘duck’
What did Saphir Whorf say?
Linguistic determinism: Language + its structure limit/ determine thoughts, memory etc. Bilingual people have different thoughts.
What was swifts theory?
Called for ‘English’ academy to regulate Lange use ie: shortened words, contradictions, invented terms.
What was Lowry’s theory?
Published grammar rules in latin, ie: prepositions should come b4 the noun, ‘thou’ = replaced by ‘you’
What was Honeys theory?
The only ✅ version of English is standard English+ Rp - ppl that ❌ speak it= ➖ intelligent
What was Dr Samuel Johnson’s theory?
Wrote a dictionary, secure language from decaying, ❌ work, language kept changing
