Language Change

Language Change

1. Hart

   • recommended the extended caps in 1600s
   • was deemed incorrect by grammarians in 1700s
   • eventually all nouns were being capitalised

2. David Crystal

   • coined the term 'internet linguistics'
   • examines technology's impact on formal language and structure
   • new features like inconsistent style and new abbrevs.

3. Harvey and Shalom

   • a problem area is indicated by the level of euphemisms available
   • technical, euphemistic or dysphemistic words are often used
   • indicates the "taboo" nature of the topics

4. Freeborn

   • studied how people view different dialects like AAVE
   • categorised the views in three ways
     • the incorrectness view
     • the impreciseness view
     • the ugliness view