Weblinks and videos for use with 10070 – Language Change from 1600: Comprehensive Course Companion for A Level AQA
Some Introductory Context
Task 1
A Brief History of English
Old English (circa fifth century to eleventh century AD)
Task 1
Middle English (circa eleventh century to fifteenth century AD)
Task 2
- The Great Vowel Shift
- William Caxton's illustrated second edition of The Canterbury Tales
- Resurgence of English
- Chaucer and the Birth of English Literature
- The English works of Wycliffe hitherto unprinted
Early Modern English (circa late fifteenth century to circa 1800)
Task 3
- The Tyndale Bible
- The Bible
- Renaissance
- Golden Age of English Literature
- William Shakespeare
- Origins of African-American Vernacular English
- Why isn't 'American' a language?
- 1755 – Johnson's Dictionary
Standardisation
- Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, London, (1712)
- Johnson, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
- Waller, Edmund, Of English Verse in The Works of Edmund Waller, London (1729)
Modern English (circa 1800 to present)
Task 5
- Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution
- British direct rule begins in India
- The Education Act
- WWI begins
- First radio broadcast in Britain
- First TV broadcast in Britain
- The SS Empire Windrush lands at Tilbury Docks
- The World Wide Web begins
- First text message
- Facebook starts
- Twitter starts
- First Iphone is produced
Language Change: Debates and Concepts
Determinism and Reflectionism
- Guy Deutscher: Language alters how we think
- Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction
Task 3
- Professor Jean Aitchison’s Reith Lecture ‘A Web of Worries’ in audio format
- Professor Jean Aitchison’s Reith Lecture ‘A Web of Worries’ in text format
Concept 4: Benign Prescriptivism
Task 5
Concept 5: Traditional Prescriptivism
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
- The Secret Apostrophiser of Bristol
- The Queen's English Society
- The Apostrophe Preservation Society
Task 6
Theories and Studies
Theory 3: C J Bailey (1973) – The Wave Model
Discussion Point 1
Theory 9: Martha’s Vineyard Study – Labov
Theory 10: Guy Deutscher: The ‘Traffic Jam’ and ‘Field’ analogies
AO1 – Language Levels
Task 2
Task 4
NEA Opportunity
Task 5
Received Pronunciation
Discussion Point 2
Task 6
Task 7
- Children put an accent on Milton Keynes: Will Bennett finds playground talk has proved a great leveller in a new town whose adults come from all over Britain
- When languages collide by Philippa Law