Language Change Key Periods

Question 1

Old English

Answer 1

450CE-1066CE

Angles and Saxons

Question 2

Middle English

Answer 2

1066-1076

More people died after Black Death who spoke French and Latin

Question 3

EME

Answer 3

1450-1800

Question 4

EME Caxtons Printing Press

Answer 4

Allowed books to be mass produced
Brought costs down and allowed middle class to purchase
Standard English was then associated with the written mode
Mercian - overt prestige

Question 5

EME-inkhorn controversy John Cheke

Answer 5

Proposed reform back to Anglo Saxon instead of Latin and French but failed

Question 6

Johnson’s Dictionary

Answer 6

First dictionary to codify words and give etymology
Impossible task to preserve the English language due to semantic change “like trying to lash the wind

Question 7

LME

Answer 7

1800- present

Question 8

LME- functional theory

Answer 8

Language changes to meet the needs of its users

Question 9

LME- New coinages

Answer 9

Acronyms “scuba”
Clipping “car”
Compounding “laptop”
Metaphores “the cloud”
As a result for computer mediated language

Question 10

Heterogenous

Answer 10

We borrow from other languages eg: Karaoke -Japan

Question 11

LME-Amelioration

Answer 11

Semantic shift gains positive connotations “awesome”

Question 12

Pejoration- negative connotations

Answer 12

Semantic shift gains negative connotations eg: crafty

Question 13

Archaism

Answer 13

Word falls out of usage

Question 14

LME - Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

Answer 14

Language controls and determines the way we speak
Determinism

Question 15

LME - Chomsky 2002

Answer 15

Thought Is moulded by language

Question 16

Semantic reclamations

Answer 16

Slurs reappropriated by groups

Could link to gender dale spender and the semantic reclamation of cunt

Question 17

LME- Justyna Robinson

Answer 17

Awesome meaning has been in flux for some time - used to mean terror or fear