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Late Modern English (1700-1960ish)
- Key Dates, People,
Events etc
- Standardisation
- 1755 Samuel Johnson publishes
first English Dictionary
- regional differences lessen
- Covert Prestige
- Covert Prestige
- 1755 Samuel Johnson publishes
first English Dictionary
- Jane Austen
- Growth in education
- sense of class divide increased
- sense of class divide increased
- Industrial Revolution
(about 1760 onwards)
- sense of prestige
and class heightened
- sense of prestige
and class heightened
- Expansion of
British Empire
- English becomes
international language
- America established
as a superpower
- America established
as a superpower
- English becomes
international language
- Standardisation
- Lexis
- Informalisation
- Neologisms for describing the new
technologies and scientific discoveries
- Americanisms
- Borrowed Terms
- Polysyllabic Lexis
- Informalisation
- Semantics
- Semantic change to describe the new
technologies and scientific discoveries
- Semantic change to describe the new
technologies and scientific discoveries
- Grammar
- Regularization
- Complex grammatical
structures
- use of subordinate clauses
- use of subordinate clauses
- Regularization
- Syntax
- Regularization
- Regularization
- Orthography
- Standard spellings
- prestige attached
- prestige attached
- Influence of technology e.g. texting
- Standard spellings
- Graphology
- Plainer, simpler style
- Colour printing
- Plainer, simpler style
- Phonology
- More standardised, converge to RP
- Covert Prestige
- Covert Prestige
- More standardised, converge to RP
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