Who is the founder of variationist sociolinguistics?
William Labov
He showed that language change happens through social patterns.
What did Peter Trudgill research?
Dialect contact and social influence on change
His work highlights how social factors affect language variation.
What theory did Lesley Milroy develop?
Social network theory in language change
This theory examines how social relationships influence language use.
What did James Milroy study?
Standardization and ideology in language change
His research focuses on how ideologies affect language practices.
Key idea: Language change spreads through ______, identity, and community variation.
social networks
This concept emphasizes the role of social connections in language evolution.
Language change is ____ and _____.
Natural and inevitable.
There’s no such thing as good or bad language, theres only language
That is more or less appropiate in the given context
Language belongs to its ____ Its not something that can be owned or controlled by grammatitions or teachers.
users.
Inkhorn controvery
Those who supported borrowings and coinages said it would enrich the English language, which during the Tudor period was considered ‘rude’ and ‘barbarous,’ lacking the appropriate words to express learned ideas.
What did Samuel Johnson’s say about the language when he made the first dictionary ever
No dictionary can ever be perfect since while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some are falling away’
Purists
condemned foreign borrowings, such as Sir John Cheke, who in a 1557 letter wrote: “I am of the opinion that our tung should be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borowing of other tunges.” In order to avoid using borrowed terms, Purists of this strain invented their own compounds from Saxon words.
Neologizer
to make or use new words or create new meanings for existing words
Sir Thomas Elyot was an early Neologizer who, aware of the confusion a new word might cause, would pair it with a more familiar synonym or an explanation to aid readers’ understanding.
Change from above
attempts by those in positions of authority to impose a correct form of language on users.
Change from below
occurs when language users adapt language to suit a particular need. With repeated usage, the change enters the language without comment as users are not consciously aware of it.
Examples of change from above
French academy
Noah Websters Spelling reform
Slang bans in London schools
John Humphrys
The change of the english language, caused by tec especially is ruining the language
Language is decaying and becoming worse in quality not evolving
Pillaging our punctation savaging our sentences, raping our vocab
