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A2 English Language- Language Change Terminology Stats
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What is a newly invented word?
Neologism
87.5%
What is it called when people change how they speak to fit in with a majority in a social situation?
Convergence
72.5%
What is it called when a word's meaning changes over time to become more positive?
Amelioration
70%
When two existing words are fused together to create a new one (eg-
Smog)
Blend
67.5%
What is it called when a word's meaning changes over time to become more negative?
Pejoration
67.5%
What is it called when a word takes on a wider meaning over time, becoming used for more than its original purpose
Broadening
65%
What view point belives the language change is harmful and that slang and new words are inferior forms of language, wishing to keep language as it is now?
Prescriptivists
65%
What view point believe that language change is necessary and that all forms of language are equally beneficial?
Descriptivists
65%
What is it called when a person changes how they speak in order to stand out from the majority in a social situation?
Divergence
65%
Adding morphemes to the beginnign of a word to change it's meaning (eg-
Ultra or Semi)
Prefixes
62.5%
Adding morphemes to the end of an existing word to change its meaning (eg-
'ing' or 'er')
Suffixes
62.5%
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When a new word is made from two existing words comnig together usually through hyphens (eg-
Man-
flu)
Compound
60%
What is it called when a word's meaning becomes more specific over time (meat used to refer to more than just dead animal matter)
Narrowing
60%
What is it called when a set of words are combined into one using their initial letters?
Initialism
57.5%
What is it called when a new word is created through shortening an existing one?
Clipping
57.5%
What is it called when a word's meaning loses strength over time and becomes softer?
Weakening
55%
What is it called when people adapt their language to appear higher statused ?
Overt Prestige
45%
What is it called when people subtly change the way the speak to fit in with a group dialect?
Covert Prestige
40%
The act of adding morphemes to an existing word to modify it and change its meaning?
Affixation
37.5%
What is a word that has more than one meaning called?
Polysemic
27.5%
What is it called when a words meaning changes without having any morphemes added. The letters are the same but its cotnext has changed (eg-
Green as a colour or Green in golf)
Conversion
22.5%
What are elements of texts that invovle punctuation rather than words called?
Prosodic Features
7.5%
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