Nothing Stands Still for Long - venturesbooks.cz
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Nothing Stands
Still for Long
Dealing with
Changing English
Rob Dean March 2019
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Agenda
1. Language Change –
past and present
2. Examples galore
3. Implications for
teaching
4. Language Change –
what of the future?
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Language Change Past and Present
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Incorrect English?
ALL gifts are free… 10 items or FEWER
In the EVENT of fire… …OWING to bad weather
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Description or prescription?
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L’Académie Française
1. Le parking
2. Le pressing
3. Le marketing
4. Le weekend
5. Le footing
Fighting the Change…
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Change is nothing
new…
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Words from Different Sources
Anglo Saxon
cow
sheep
ghost
shirt
harbour
Old French
beef
mutton
phantom
blouse
port
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What’s changing?
•Vocabulary / lexis
•Grammar
•Functional Language
•Pronunciation
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The nature of language change
Economy
Analogy
Language Contact
Medium of
Communication
computer
corpuses (vs. corpora)
siesta, cappucino
CU L8TR, Cc, Bcc
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What’s causing the changes?
Technology & Lifestyle changes
Social and Political changes
Media – Television, internet, films, journalism
‘Foreign’ words entering the language
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“New” Borrowed Words
- Which language?
ski
ukulele
polka
oligarch
aficionado
barista
Imported words for imported
products
Easier / Shorter names for
existing things
Norwegian
Hawaiian
Czech
Greek
Spanish
Italian
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The influence of the Media
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The ‘Friends’ Phenomenon
Frequently repeated idiotic entertainment
nobody deserves to suffer
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“I am SO gonna buy that top!”
“I am really not gonna do that”
“I am so not gonna do that”
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The ‘Little Britain’
Phenomenon
The Influence of the Media:
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“Vicky’s like standing at the bus
stop and I’m like, “What are you
doing here?”
“Vicky was standing at the bus stop
and I said to her “What are you
doing here?”
Usage: Informal version of past continuous
Usage: Informal; to introduce direct speech or
feelings, often of a surprising or interesting nature.
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Changing Pronunciation
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Queen’s English?
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Estuary English
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Pronunciation… on the move
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The Oz / NZ Effect
Kylie Minogue Nicole Kidman Paul Hogan Russell Crowe
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The Antipodean Effect
It’s great to be here.
I enjoy my work.
I’ve been here before.
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Antipodean Intonation
(Rising Terminus)
American Shortening
going to
want to
sort of
/gɒnə/
/wɒnə/
/sɔːtə/
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Words and expressions for a new millennium
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ego-surfing (n)
to unfriend (v)
cyberwidow (n)
fubbing (n)
chillax (v)
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Blends
jeans + leggings =
web + seminar=
Britain + exit =
glamorous + camping =
Jennifer + Lopez =
Boris + Johnson =
jeggings
webinar
Brexit
glamping
J-Lo
Bo-Jo
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LOL
BBL
EOD
LMK
FYA
POS
Laugh out Loud
Be back later
End of discussion
Let me know
For your amusement
Parent over shoulder
The impact of new technology:
TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms)
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Alphabet taught to kids nowadays
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Change isn’t for everyone…
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Irritating expressions
How are you? – I’m good
At this moment in time, the meeting is still in progress.
Please enter your PIN number.
Passengers are kindly requested to proceed to gate 15.
I’m really liking that.
It’s fairly unique.
We have pan fried fish or oven baked chicken.
You haven’t done your homework. – Whatever!
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Irritating ‘solutions’
Entrance and Exit Solutions
Climate Protection Solutions
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The Age of Political Correctness
manic depressive
air stewardess
BC, AD
blind
fat
cheating
bipolar
flight attendant
BCE, CE
non-sighted
person of substance
collaborative learning
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Implications for Teaching
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Implications for Teaching…
1) Reception vs. Production
• Important for learners to understand what
they hear.
• Less important for them to immediately
produce ‘new’ language.
• Exposure is they key: YouTube, podcasts,
TV, etc.
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Implications for Teaching…
2) The demands of exams
• Exams demand accuracy – ‘new’ language
may not yet be acceptable to examiners.
• ‘New’ language more acceptable in speaking
than writing.
Play it safe!
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Modern Reference
Materials?
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Lynne
Truss
Talk to the
Hand
David
Crystal
Txtng –
The gr8
db8
Jeremy
Butterfied
Damp Squid
Bill Bryson
Mother
Tongue
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Language Change: What of the Future?
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And what of the future?
If I was minister for English...
What changes would you like to see?
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‘s’ in 3rd person singular
irregular verbs
Less frequently used tenses
articles
used to and past ‘would’
Bye Bye to:
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simplification of question tags
time/tense agreement
simplification of prefixes e.g. ‘un’ for everything negative:
unpolite, uncorrect, unrelevant, unlegal…
simplification of spelling rules
… and a few other adjustments:
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