today you will winkle out some good stuff on a variety of topics to inform us on in Friday's lesson via a short Powerpoint presentation. You can work in pairs or on your own.
Remember to keep slides short and be able to sasy more than you have written - slides should be limited to prompts, facts and quotes.
Choose a topic from the list below and let me know; if it hasn't already been taken, start researching and creating a few slides. You have this lesson and any time you spend on it before Friday - I expect you to be well-informed and polished. If I see anyone faffing with what it looks like for more than 5 minutes, you will be in big trouble. Turn it into a more detailed blog post for Tuesday.
Topics:
- Dictionaries from 1700s to today
- Grammar guides 1700s to today
- Prescriptive attitudes through time (examples)
- What is prescriptivism? and Jean Aitchison's metaphors e.g. crumbling castle - use your own examples
- Fairclough's informalisation (and some examples from real texts, not quotes you found)
- Standardisation (focussed on the 1700s - overview)
- 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 franca
- 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 LC
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