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12 Cards in this Set
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What reasons can you think of for language change?
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1. individuals making up their own words. (Shakespeare) 2. internet: the need for new lexis to speed up speaking. words such as LOL coming into spoken language 'got to go' 3. political correctness 4.Globalisation / Americanisation. |
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what is political correctness and why has it come about?
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Political correctness is the use of lexis to refrain from causing emotional harm to others. 'spas' 'accessibility toilets' 'n///a'. its come about to fit into a society free of isolation and prejudice against particular groups of people. people argue its gone too far and prevents free speech |
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Prescriptivism vs descriptivism
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Prescriptivism is following conservative language and being reluctant to change - dictating how it should be used. Descriptivism is an acceptance of language change claiming its inevitable and should have an open mind towards it. |
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Borrowings
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loan words taken from foreign languages such as the word 'judge' from French and 'opera' from latin.
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Compounding
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two words are combined in their entirety to make a new word. e.g. Laptop, sunflower, sunshine |
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blending
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2 words moulded together to form a new word. usually by adding the start of one word e.g. smog & motel
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conversion
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changing of a word class. usually from a noun to a verb. e.g. to text - a text & to run - a run
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Shortening or Abbreviation
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clipping part of a word. e.g. omnibus became bus & public house became pub
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broadening and generalisation
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