Language change
- Created by: sophielou19
- Created on: 27-01-20 12:55
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- Language Change
- Reasons for Language Change
- individuals-Chaucer and Shakespeare
- New technology-internet creating neologisms
- society- cultural changes and shifts in attitudes requiring new lexis
- foreign influence and science
- Travel, trade, colonialisation and globalisation
- What is political correctness?
- refrain from causing personal harm
- fit into society free from isolation
- Gone too far-vertically challenged.
- Attitudes to Language Change
- Prescriptivism dictating how language should be used -wants language to remain the same and refrain from change
- descriptivism- Accepting that language change is inevitable and accept change
- Reasons for Language Change
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