I am only to set you up with work today because I am part of a moderator's visit, so you will be doing a research task for me and, as I am sure you will all LOVE, doing a small group presentation tomorrow in class. Yay!
I'd like you to combine a few of the topics below, do some group research, and then turn this in to a short PowerPoint presentation for tomorrow morning, so the rest of the class can be informed on some excellent AO2 stuff - remember, you need to impress the examiner with your wealth of knowledge in this area!
I'd like you in groups of, ideally, no more than 3, and for each group to cover one topic per person. If there are 4 of you, you need to cover 3 topics to make it fair. Since you have the entirety of today's lesson to work on this, I expect you to be well informed and polished when presenting tomorrow morning. After the presentation, turn your research into a detailed blog post for Tuesday.
No repeat topics please! To ensure this is fair, I will be assigning you topics once you have got yourselves into your groups.
Here are the list of topics:
- Dictionaries from 1700's to today
- Grammar guides 1700s to today
- Prescriptive attitudes through time (examples)
- What is prescriptivism? Use Jean Aitchison's metaphors
- Fairclough's informalisation with some examples of real texts
- Standardisation
- The Great Vowel Shift
- Shakespeare's impact on language - then and now (why is English suited to acquiring coinages?)
- The effect of social media on language change
- Textisms then and now
- Pidgins and creoles
- World Englishes and English as a lingua granca
- Political correctness
- Why do words get invented and become obsolete (incremental and decremental change)?
- Reasons for language change summary
- Examples of words that have changed using different terminology and relating to reasons for language change.
I am looking forward to seeing these tomorrow!
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