Linguistics 206 English: A Changing Language in a Changing World

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Paul Baker | Uta Papen

Week 7: Informalisation (Written) notes here.

   

Links to external sites

Note - we can't always vouch the accuracy of some of the information on these sites.

Corpus Linguistics
BNCweb
BNC grammatical tagset
Corpus Linguistics online web sessions

Language Regulation
The Plain English Campaign
What is Correct Language? Essay by Prof Ed Finnegan
The Apostrophe Protection Society
The Queen's English Society
The Gunning Fog Index

Swearing
Mediawatchuk.org
Essay on swearing
Swearing - the sickness in society
Alternative swearing language
Swearing is a modern curse
Swearing and parenting
Swearing off foul language
Swearing not always rude

Informalisation
The Queen's accent
Dialect Levelling

Mobile Phones
Towards a Sociological Theory of the Mobile Phone
The effects of mobile phones on social and individual life
Haddon, the social consequences of mobile telphony

Text Messaging
SMS information
Cn u txt? Prof John Sutherland - Guardian article

Restricted Englishes
Basic English
Talking Across Frontiers - Airspeak, Seaspeak etc
The Language of Sport

Globalisation
Engrish.com Japanese English
The Future of English by David Graddol - this is a pdf file