Chaucer himself remarked on the language of a thousand years before him a famous passage from Troylus and Criseyde, (II.22-28) expressed that men long before spoke in so different manner from his contemporaries.
Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thenketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do. ‘You know also that there is change in the form of speech within a thousand years, and of words though, that had value, now wondrous foolish and strange to us they seem, and yet they spoke them thus, and they proposed as well in love as men now do; also for winning love in various times, …show more content…
They include such things as expressive uses o language, positive and negative social evaluations (prestige stigma), the effects of literacy prescriptive grammar, educational policies, political decree, language planning, and language contact and so on’ says ‘Lyle Campbell (2004 p-325-327)’. Change in history is regarded as externally motivated if there is no obvious internal reason for it. As for example of this is the major shift is long vowels which began in the late Middle English period. This is basically a raising of long vowels by one level and the diphthongization of the two high vowels /i: / and /u: /. There was no discernible internal reason why this change should have started as it did in the late Middle English period, so the assumption in that there was external motivation: for some reason a raised realization of long vowels, or a slight diphthongization of high vowels – whichever came first – became fashionable, caught on in the speech community and so the ball starting rolling and has, for Cockney at least, not come to rest since. ‘Raymond Hickey Language Change (Page 2 of
Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thenketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do. ‘You know also that there is change in the form of speech within a thousand years, and of words though, that had value, now wondrous foolish and strange to us they seem, and yet they spoke them thus, and they proposed as well in love as men now do; also for winning love in various times, …show more content…
They include such things as expressive uses o language, positive and negative social evaluations (prestige stigma), the effects of literacy prescriptive grammar, educational policies, political decree, language planning, and language contact and so on’ says ‘Lyle Campbell (2004 p-325-327)’. Change in history is regarded as externally motivated if there is no obvious internal reason for it. As for example of this is the major shift is long vowels which began in the late Middle English period. This is basically a raising of long vowels by one level and the diphthongization of the two high vowels /i: / and /u: /. There was no discernible internal reason why this change should have started as it did in the late Middle English period, so the assumption in that there was external motivation: for some reason a raised realization of long vowels, or a slight diphthongization of high vowels – whichever came first – became fashionable, caught on in the speech community and so the ball starting rolling and has, for Cockney at least, not come to rest since. ‘Raymond Hickey Language Change (Page 2 of