Impact of Technology on Language and PC Language

Question 1

Language has never been pure and is not carefully crafted

Answer 1

Inferior

Question 2

What are Jean Aitchisons 3 Peescriptivist perspective assumption classes?

Answer 2

Crumbling Castle Theory Damp Spoon Theory Infectious Disease Theory

Question 3

How does Technology influence how we speak? (2 ways)

Answer 3

New inventions require new words CMC Technology

Question 4

What did Baron say about new writing technology criticism in history? Who criticised it?

Answer 4

Even writing gained criticism from Plato

Question 5

How did Plato criticise writing?

Answer 5

He said words could not represent meanings of things

Question 6

Which other writing tools have received criticism in the past?

Answer 6

Pencils, Printing Press, Phones

Question 7

What do some linguists argue new language technology use is not doing? What do they say it does instead?

Answer 7

Does not make us lazy but makes us more creative with language used

Question 8

What did Political correctness initially look at?

Answer 8

How some phrases excluded women or diminished their roles

Question 9

What type of language change is political correctness?

Answer 9

Bottom-up

Question 10

What is bottom-up language change?

Answer 10

When common people influence language change and it moves up over time