Your mocks are fast approaching, less than 2 weeks to go! So today you can do some blog work and Cambridge Elevate work to re-familiarize yourself with Language Change before we go into revision mode.
First: Please read the post on my blog dated Thursday 24th March. This was our last lesson of the term. If you weren't here or you haven't finished this work, please do so now.
Next, do some revision on 17th century texts and their conventions. You may well get a text from as far back as the 17th century in your exam, so you need to be prepared to discuss it. Use Cambridge Elevate to go through the topics for some ideas on how to approach these kinds of texts. I have a past paper with a 17th Century text to help you,
For context, below is a list of the topics you chose from when you did the presentations a few months ago. It is really worth exploring all of them, so start working your way through and make a few notes on your blogs:
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.
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