This document summarizes how language change is assessed in the English Language A: Language and Linguistics exam. Language change has its own 30-mark question and may also be addressed in Section B (comparing two texts on a language issue) and in one of the Paper 1 texts, which could be from 1600 to present. When analyzing older texts, students should consider effects of historical context like different syntax, changed meanings and expressions, and attitudes from the time period. The document also provides terminology for describing language change, reasons it occurs, and attitudes toward it, as well as topics like gendered pronouns and technological influences. Sample exam questions are included focusing on comparing modern and historical texts, exploring semantic shifts of words,
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2. Language Change has its own question on Paper 2
It is a 30-mark question in Section A (the ‘Diversity
and Change’ section)
It is optional as you could do the question on diversity
instead
However…
How is LC assessed?
3. Section B (Language Discourses) could focus on Language
Change issues for a total of 70 more marks (compare two texts
on a language issue and write an opinion piece about it)
AND…
One of the texts on Paper 1 section A (compare how attitudes
and values are represented in two texts) will be a ‘historical
text’
This means the text could be written in any year between 1600
and the present time
How is LC assessed?
4. In the historical text, you will need to show an
awareness of the effect of historical context on
language e.g.
look at how the syntax (word order) is structured
differently because of the time period
how meanings and expressions have changed
how attitudes from the time period are represented
as well as other contextual factors that you would look
at anyway
How is LC assessed?
5. Terminology to describe how language has changed
Reasons for LC
Attitudes to LC
LC hot topics e.g. (non-)gendered pronouns, ‘literally’,
apostrophes, technological advances
Areas of LC
6. JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Describe the ways in which this extract differs from a
modern standard English text (use as many different
frameworks as possible)
1600 - Shakespeare
7. Many, many words used to mean something different
Often those older meanings are preserved in phrases
or collocations (word pairings)
It is worth knowing a range of these to use as
examples
Semantic shift (meaning changes)
8. Here are a few terms to describe semantic shifts:
Broadening – the old meaning is kept and new meanings
are added e.g. ‘novice’ used to be a ‘probationer in a
religious order’ but is applied to many kinds of beginner
e.g. a novice driver is someone who has not long passed
their test
Narrowing – meaning becomes more specific e.g. ‘meat’
used to be any food - preserved in the phrase ‘meat and
drink’
Ways in which LC happens
9. Amelioration is when a word becomes more positive in
(some of) its meanings e.g. ‘wicked’ coming to be slang
like ‘cool’ (but it retained its original meaning so it has also
broadened)
Pejoration is the opposite (becomes more negative) e.g.
‘gay’ meant happy and carefree then became a slur (then
ameliorated again as attitudes to homosexuality became
more positive, then became an insult meaning ‘lame’ and
pejorated again)
Conversion is where words change word class e.g. ‘Google’
became ‘to google’
Ways in which LC happens
10. Words can come into the English language in many
ways as well as existing words gaining new uses:
Borrowing from other languages e.g. gesundheit, cafe
Coinage – create a neologism or new word e.g.
photograph
Proprietary names sometimes become concrete nouns
or verbs e.g. if you ask for sellotape you don’t expect
specifically the Sellotape brand and you can hoover your
room without a Hoover
There are many more terms…
11. 1. Find a short section of text (fiction or n-f) from 1600ish and
translate it into modern English. Then analyse differences using as
much linguistic comment as you can e.g. syntax, semantic shift
(what sorts?) etc.
2. Research a word that has changed and any phrases, collocations
or uses (previous or current uses) that illustrate the different
meanings e.g. not quite ready vs quite tired
3. Find two articles that show differing attitudes to a ‘language
change’ issue e.g. an article that criticises young people’s language
and one that objectively describes it or is positive about it. Or one
about the change in ‘literally’ or one on the use of non-gendered
pronouns etc. Analyse the language used to represent the
change/issue, comparing the two texts.
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12. Across history, there have been people who dislike
change in their language
These people who judge language use as ‘right’ or
‘wrong’ are called ‘prescriptivists’
We try to describe not judge and be ‘descriptivists’
But even we often have linguistic bugbears – what
are yours?
Attitudes