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AQA ENGB3 Language Change from 1700. #a2englishlanguageaqab #languagechange
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Which of the following is an example of lexical borrowing?
Chocolate
Fruit
Bungalow
House
2
'Google' is what?
A multi-billion $ company
A search engine
Better than Bing!
A proprietary name used now to mean 'to search the web'.
3
Context again: who arrived next?
The Angles
The Norsemen (Vikings)
The Norman French
The Saxons
4
Prescriptivism is:
The ways rules must be used in a language.
Describing a language's evolution.
The only way to fly.
Seeing the 'bad' in modern English use.
5
Content of literary texts from the 18th/19thcenturies are different stylistically. How?
Polysyllabic vocabulary
Fonts
Amount of subordinate clauses
Graphologhy
6
'Villain' - originally meant "
farmhand
" (living in a villa i.e. country house.) Is this:
Semantic Pejoration?
Semantic Amelioration?
7
'Meat' is an example of?
Semantic Widening
Semantic Narrowing
8
Who spoke French after 1066?
The Peasants
The Aristocracy
The Nobles
Anyone who wanted to 'get on in life'
9
Which pronoun below is disappearing from use?
Of
Whom
To
Who
10
In the 19th century, how did Victorian schooling impact on language change?
More consistent and standardised spellingevolved.
Schooling offeredto all children = MASS LEARNING.
The drive for a more literate society created change.
11
Semantic Amelioration is?
A word's meaning becomes more positive over time.
A word's meaning becomes less positive over time.
12
'Blog' is a blended word (We
b
+
Log
). What is this type of word formation called?
Euphemism
Spoonerism
Dysphemism
Neogolism
13
'BBC English' was correctly known as:
Dialectal English
Posh English
Received Pronunciation
Standard English
14
Norman French melted into the metaphorical mixing pot of MIDDLE ENGLISH alongside what else?
Irish / Welsh
Saxon / Norse
Spanish / Italian
Indian / Persian
15
Johnson's dictionary contained around________ words?
35,000
20,000
40,000
45,000
16
When was English language standardisation begun in earnest?
19th century?
18th century?
20th century?
17th century?
17
What is compounding?
Collecting words together.
Creating a new word via a blend.
Collecting phrases.
Creating a new word via 2 others.
18
More language ingredients: And who arrived in third place in 1066?
The Romans
The Norman French
The Indians
John Cena
19
The process by which a word becomes more general over time is called?
Semantic Widening
Semantic Shortening
Semantic Narrowing
Semantic Greatening
20
William Caxton's printing press appeared when?
1376
1676
1476
1576
21
Final word on history: Britain expanded and colonised how much of the world's surface?
1/3
1
1/5
1/4
22
Why was speaking French so important?
It was the only way to order a croissant.
The legal system (therefore all law) was in French.
West Saxon was such a gutteral language.
It was a way to impress 'ze laydees.'
23
Why would Ant and Dec not be allowed to read the BBC news in 1955?
Because regional accents were not allowed on air.
Because only 1 person can read the news.
Because they have no real talent.
Because they are illiterate.
24
Words are converted and CAN CHANGE CATEGORIES and are added to the lexicon. Find the 2 below.
Text
Night
Google
Red
25
'Pants' is experiencing semantic shift. What is the correct British English definition?
Trousers or Jeans
Underwear
26
Nearly there: The printing press gave birth to the Renaissance, but what was that?
A political movement.
Printing new books.
A rediscovery and printing of Ancient Greek and Roman texts.
A rediscovery and printing of Saxon jokes.
27
'Pyjamas' is from which 2 languages?
Arabic
Urdu
Bengali
Persian (Thanks Paria!)
28
What is an 'Eponym'?
The name given to a product via a company.
The name of a person after whom something is named.
29
Robert Lowth's '
Short Introduction to English Grammar
’ (1762) was reprinted how many times?
1000
45
75
125
30
'Oxbridge' is?
A blended word.
A sure way to a top job.
An elitist institution that needs to be flattened.
A compound word.
31
'Bastard' has weakened semantically over time. What did it originally mean?
A Norman noble
A angry fish
A fatherless child
32
The ∫ stopped being used for what reason?
No phonological function, the phonemedidn’t need a grapheme.
Printing practices and type settinggot rid of it.
It cost money to carve the lead.
It became redundant
33
Non-standard SPAG tends to impact on language change via
Norman French
Romans
Technology
Schooling
34
In the 20th century, how did Government intervention change language?
OFSTED
Enforced literacy strategies
By scrapping KS3 SAT tests.
35
Acronyms are relatively modern. Find the one below:
NAZI
SWAT
36
With regards to grammatical standardisation, Negation is constructed differently now. How?
We use a lot of double negatives.
We don't use negatives
we use the auxiliary verb Do to make a negative.
We tend not to use 'no'
37
Fairclough and ‘Conversationalisation’ - what is it?
Written and Spoken discourse warring.
Written and Spoken discourse separating.
Written and Spoken discourse vanishing.
Written and Spoken discourse merging.
38
Setting the scene: Who arrived and settled first?
The Angles
The Saxons
The Norsemen (Vikings)
The Gauls
39
Is 'EyeDialect':
'Talking' through ones eyes?
A way of using of using non-verbal communication?
Spelling words to suggests aregional / social way of talking
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Why has spelling changed? For three mainreasons:
Technological
Phonological
Government Law
For purposes of standardisation
