A Level English Language - Language Change

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