theorists

Question 1

robbie love

Answer 1

desensitisation of swear words

Question 2

Deborah Cameron

Answer 2

verbal hygiene
-using bad grammar means having bad behaviour
-subconscious bias between people who speak bad and act badly

Question 3

Lynne Tuss

Answer 3

Eats, shoots and leaves
comparison of the devil to ppl who use incorrect linguistic forms
-plummeting punctuation is the standard
- satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophe

Question 4

Jean Aitchinson

Answer 4

• Crumbling castle
  prescriptive view
  prestige english is losing structure
• Damp spoon
  new forms arise bcs of laziness/common belief
  -Infectious disease
  catching quickly , to fill a lexical gap
  due to media and celeb culture

Question 5

David crystal

Answer 5

Language is constantly changing in an unpredictable way
- yet it retains uniformity and patterns
- using text speech is almost like being bilingual