This knowledge organiser covers all content for AQA A Level English Language Language Change, to include:
- The origins and development of English, from Old English to Modern English
- Key words and definitions, including different forms of neology and neosemy and examples with each definition
- Detailed case studies of events, organisations and grammarians and extracts from key texts
- Timelines of orthographical and grammatical change
- Debates surrounding punctuation and Standard English (SE)
- Theories and models of language change, including functional theory, random fluctuation theory, innovation, diffusion and s-curve, the wave model and substratum theory
- Factors affecting language change, including internal and external factors
- Attitudes towards language change, including Aitchison’s (2013) metaphors
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