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A Level English Language Paper 2 > Language Change > Flashcards

Language Change Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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drivers of language change:

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• technology
• society
• colonisation
• media
• politics
• education
• immigration
• culture

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prescriptivist ideas:

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• conservative approach
• common sense
• generational divide
• nostalgia
• tradition
• culture

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John Honey

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• high standards of English are falling
• youth losing SE features

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John Humphrey’s

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text speech is destroying english

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Samuel Johnson

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Prescriptivist attitudes towards the dictionary

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James Milroy

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• Golden age of language

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Lyne Truss

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zero tolerance towards punctuation

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Halliday

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linguistic table manners

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David crystal

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language change is a natural process to accommodate change
tidal metaphor

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Michael Rosen

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speaks about grammar being problematic at a young age

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Stephen Fry

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grammar is not necessary in the diversity and beauty of english language

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Stephen Pinker

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language diversity and change are important for celebrating group identity and diversity

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Aitchison PIDC model

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• Potential: for a new word
• Implementation: coined/defined then introduced
• Diffusion: widely used
• Codification: accepted and placed in the dictionary

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Aitchisons metaphors

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criticised english being represented through metaphors
• lazy (damp spoon)
• infectious disease
• crumbling castle

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Functional theory

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• meets the needs of the user

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Hocket: Random fluctuation

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• change is random/unpredictable

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cultural transmission: Lockett

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• innovation: creating new words/phrases
• diffusion: spreading from user to wider population

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lexical gap

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seeing the likely path language may take in the future (alternative morphological forms and converting an existing word (text -> texting)

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wave model (bailey)

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starts at the centre and gradually spreads outwards

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Robert Green: declinism and sticklerism

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• declinism: belief that language is on large decline
• sticklerism: scolding others grammar, vocab and pronunciation

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CMC

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computer mediated communication

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Language change discourses

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• decline
• decay
• conflict
• infection
• invasion
• intelligence
• laziness
• morality

A Level English Language Paper 2 (2 decks)

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