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Change Theorists
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- 1James MillroyHe argues against the idea of the "Golden Age" of language. If there is one we're moving towards it, not away from it.
- 2Peter TrudgillPeople change all the time. Language must change with them. Languages are self-regulating systems so change isn't good or bad, simply inevitable. The only languages which can't change are those such as Latin, which no one speaks. In some cases language changes do happen due to ignorance of a word's meaning but the context of a word often indicates the meaning. A word can't be misused if everyone understands and uses it. "Purists" will have trouble being understood.
- 3Guy DeutscherA radical prescriptivist who proposed that language gets better as it changes. We can't always predict language. Metaphors, for example, are commonplace in language today. They are use to describe and break down abstract things, bringing unfamiliarity to a larger context to make the item of choice familiar. E.g: ground-breaking plans, my heart sinks, I am plagued with guilt etc.
- 4AitchisonProposed a more functional view of language change. It occurs both consciously and unconsciously. Language alters as the needs of the user alter. Hence coining and dropping of obsolete terms. Language can be influenced by external sociolinguistic factors (e.g: linguistic influences of fashion, foreign influence and social need) and internal psycholinguistic factors (e.g: the ease of pronouncing the language).
- 5Damp spoon syndromeThe idea that language is undergoing a slow decay due to laziness.
- 6The crumbling castleThe prescriptive idea that language is crumbling and needs to be preserved.
- 7Infectious disease assumptionThe prescriptive view that bad language is spreading.
- 8Millroy and MillroyLanguage change is a slow process.
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- A Levels English Language (Language Change) FlashCards sobre Change Theorists, criado por Hazel Meades em 24-04-2015.
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