Language
is always changing and adapting this is due to many different factor including
external factors and internal factors. We borrow words from foreign influences
as well as, clipping, using initialisms, blends, propriety names and many other
ways. Types of external factors such as: Technology, society and foreign
influences are some of the main points in language change. In my opinion
technology is possibly the biggest factor as the internet is used by millions
of people from all over the world, each generation coining new words and
meanings by blending, clipping, using jargon and lots more. The influence that
technology has on today’s generation will no doubt increase into the next
generation and language will keep on expanding. In addition society plays a big
part in language change especially when children start going to school, as they
are mixing with children their own age they start to pick up new words and
phrases. This could have more of an influence of language change as teenagers
and young adults as you more commonly socialise with a variety of people, who
each speak in a different way and are from different places. We pick up new
words and phrases from different people that we talk to and sometimes these
turn into constructions that can be particular for one generation. However, sometimes
there is resurgence in popularity which can be due to a Sociolect e.g. fab was
a popular word which started to weaken and now is slowly making its way back.
Foreign influences are what have made the English language what it is; the English
language has borrowed many different words from all over the world which is due
to globalisation but more commonly due to music, television and sometimes
fashion. Rap is one of the main genres of music in today’s generation, especially
American rap the language and the way that they talk impact the way that
teenagers talk. As that genre of music is associated with being ‘cool’ and well
known it then makes some people feel as though they are accepted in society if
they listen to that type of music and act or dress in a certain way. It then can
mean that anyone who doesn’t look a certain way could be looked down upon or ‘not
cool’.
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