16.2 and 16.3 elevate

https://elevate.cambridge.org/elevate/Reader/viewer.aspx#book/151/Ch16_02


Language Change

Our language has been influenced by a variety of sources for years and years, and will continue to develop. It seems we are influenced by the product of years of invasion and settlement from Germanic tribes, Vikings and Norman French.
In the 18th century we borrowed language from Latin, Greek and around the world. Now in the 20th century we have used the influence of the media, technology, and travel.

Lexical Change

neologisms - new words
lexical change is frequent and noticeable
initialisms take the first letters of a series of words and pronounce each one

Prescriptivists are likely to resist to new forms
Descriptivists are likely to embrace and welcome change

Semantic change is an existing word gaining or losing a sense of meaning.

Prescriptive article analysis

Prescriptive grammar: a set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language, usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. Prescriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as certain people think it should be used.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483511/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html


I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language. By John Humphrys, The Daily Mail


This article has different sections of how texting is changing our language in a negative way, and is explaining how disruptive it is how people are discarding the use of formal language because we are getting comfortable creating new words and shortening original words.