Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Language Over
Time
- EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
1500-1700
- 1525 Tyndale Bible
- First published
- Credited as the first
English bible
- Wycliffe bible 1382
- 1582
Mulcaster's
Elementarie
- 1604
Cawdry's Table
Alphatbetical
- Dictionary of
'hard words'
- Low frequency
latinate/inkhorn lexemes
- 1611 King James Bible
- First offically authorised
- Deliberately archaic
- 1558- 1603
Reign of
Elizabeth I
- Increase in global trade
and discovery
- Loan words
- Shakespeare 1564-
1616
- 1594-1611
at his height
- 3,000 new words
- 'assassination'
- Phrases and idioms
- 'naked truth'
- 'green eyed monster
- The Renassiance
- Influence of Greek and Latin
- Affixiation
- 'ism'- both greek and latin
- -ology- Greek
- -anti- Latin
- The Reformation
(break from
catholic church)
1534
- 1476 Caxton's Printing Press
- MODERN ENGLISH
1700-1900
- 'An age of rules, grammar, dictionaries and definitions'
- 1755 Publishing of Samuel Johnson's
dictionary
- First 'modern' dictionary
- 1762 Robert Lowth's Intro to English
Grammar
- First Prescriptivist commentator
- 1806 Noah Websters American English
Dictionary
- 1776 American Declaration of Independence
- 1760- 1800 Industrial Revolution
- New words and lanaguage to accomodate new ideas
- Inventions and Contraptions
- Science and Technology
- Expansion of cities and factories
- British Empire under Queen Victoria
- Borrowings and loan words
- Inkhorn controversy
- India, Singapore, Canada, South Africa, New Guinea, etc
- Increase in word
stock
- Jane Austen 1775-1817
- Prescriptivism
vs
Descriptivism
- Prescriptivism: An approach to the
study of language that favours the
use of a strict set of rules that must
be obeyed in speech and writing
identifying incorrect and correct
useage
- Grammar books
- Descriptivism: An approach to the
study of language describes
language but does not judge if
language is incorrect or correct and
says that variation should be
described rather than corrected
- Charles Dickens 1812- 1870
- LATE MODERN ENGLISH
1900- Present day
- Developing and emerging technologies
- World Wide Web (Web 2.0 in 2004)
- Net speak
- Text talk
- English as a global language
- Global English
- Mass global communication
- American English
- Americanisms
- American orthography: 'color' 'meter'
- Range of speakers and
varieties of World
English, e.g. 'Black
English'
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Political
correctness
- Great Vowel
Shift
1350-1700
- Serves to explain some of
the differences in
pronunciation and spelling
of some words, especially
as standardisation was
happening at the same
time,
- long vowels: i
to ae e.g. teem
to time
- The Age of
Enlightenment 1650-
1800
- developments in scientific
reason
- impact on religion and religious language