Need For A National Organisation

Question 1

Agree- Academie

Answer 1

ACADEMIE de Francais
Johnson 1775 Dictionary of EL ‘tongues have a natural tendency to degeneration’
Swift 1712- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Language- banter, disturb’d
Lowth- multiple negation or comparison, infinitive verbs not split BUT PINKER LATIN RULES AND UNIQUE TO A PERIOD OF CLASSICISM (Renaissance adherence to recognized standards of form)

Question 2

Agree- World English

Answer 2

Engel- Americanisms are ruining British English
World Englishes- Streven’s world map of English 1980 illustrates dominance of English. Kachru- outer circle, used as L2 e.g. India, Singapore. Norm-developing countries (own varieties become developed like Indian Eng, the progressive aspect is used with stative verbs ‘I am knowing’, arbitrary use of articles). Leads to substratum a d MLE
Beneke- 80% of all interactions in English are between non-native speakers

Question 3

Thomas Wilson ‘strange ynkhorne termes’

Answer 3

During the 16th-17th centuries, there was a growing pride in the mother tongue. A return to English following many years of French rule led to an increased sense of national pride. Writers of the Renaissance began to expand the vocabulary by coining new words, using compounding or affixation, or borrowing extensively from the classical languages Latin and Greek and from the romance languages French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
1,700 words still used today from Shakes

Question 4

Disagree- Inkehorne

Answer 4

If we took same approach as Academie de Francais, we would not have established the rich English language we have today. E.g. Angles, Saxons& Jutes brought prepositions& verbs, The invasion of Normans led to a huge amount of French loan words, vastly increasing the Middle English lexicon. Vikings brought a simplified grammatical system.

Question 5

Disagree- Priestley

Answer 5

Priestley- ‘unsuitable to the genius of a free nation’ ‘the best forms of speech will, in time, establish themselves by their own superior excellence’. Supported by Aitchison Diffusion model for standardisation - there is a fluctuation between old & new forms and gradually the new ones oust the old e.g. Shakespeare used 2 different forms of question ‘thinks thou’ ‘dost thou think’ the older form fell out of use