Class Notes
- Language Change: Descriptive attitudes towards language/Prescriptive attitudes towards language
- Descriptivism/Prescriptivism
- Standard English has to be kept somehow
- Language is a window onto Human Nature
- Language emerges from human minds interacting with one another
- Visible in unstoppable change in language- Slang & Jargon, historical change, dialect divergence, language formation
- Communication model- Sender, Message, Receiver
- Euphemistic language used to dodge topics not wanting to speak about
- Context means everything- Social, Historical and Cultural
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