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• A particular form of a language peculiar to a specific region or social group.

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• What is a dialect?

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• A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.

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• What is an accent?

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• This English is the variety that is understood by writers and speakers worldwide.

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• What is Standard English?

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• The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.

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• What is vernacular?

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• An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant or that people have trouble talking about openly.

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• What is a euphemism?

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• It was in this year that Caxton introduced the printing press to England.

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• What is 1476?

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• The Great Vowel Shift occurred during this period.

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• What is Early Modern English?

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• This year began with Edward the Confessor on the throne and ended with William the Conqueror as King of England after he defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings.

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• What is 1066?

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• The period in time from 1050-1450AD.

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• What is Middle English?

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• Linguists have given this name to the period 500-1050AD.

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• What is Old English?

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• This helps you identify where the speaker comes from.

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• What is an accent?

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• This example of language variety is apparent when she says buttercup yellow, he says yellow, she says mint green and he says green.

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• What is gender difference in language variation?

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• This example of language variety is influenced by background.

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• What is an ethnic group?

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• “You are welcome.” vs “Youse are welcome.” and

• “We did everything required.” vs “We done it.” explains another cause of language variation.

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• What is social class?

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• Language change can be broken into three main schools of thought.

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• What is The Damp Spoon, The Crumbling Castle, and The Infectious Disease?

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• This tribe arrived in England about 600BC.

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• What are the Celts?

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• The first invasion of Britain occurred around 43AD.

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• What are the Romans?

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• Sailing across the North Sea to Britain, first invited in 420AD later invading in 460AD.

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• Who are the Angles, Saxons and Jutes?

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• This tribe, sailing from Denmark, invaded Britain several times from 789AD to 878AD.

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• Who are the Vikings?

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• During this period the English language underwent some major shifts. The heavy reliance of inflectional endings on words disappeared to be replaced by the word order we still .use today

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• What is Middle English?

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• English has achieved this status as it has a special role recognised in every country.

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• What is a global language?

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• The settling of America and the enslaving of black people from Africa to be transported to Southern America and the Caribbean islands.

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• What is one reason English became a global language?

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• Britain led the Industrial Revolution and English was the language used for new inventions, trade and commerce. Adopters of the new technology also adopted the new terminology.

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• What is a reason for English becoming a global language?

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• There were a large number of languages with each language often having a small number of speakers, no written record of the words of each of these languages and with colonisation English became the one language used for communication across Australia.

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• What are the reasons for the loss of Aboriginal languages?

Question 5 - 50• Pidgin:– is a mixture of local words,

borrowed words and words from the colonising language,

– has a limited vocabulary,– has a reduced grammatical

structure,– uses repetitions like good-good

and talk-talk, and– has a narrow range of functions

(why it came into being), e.g.: able to communicate between groups with different languages

• Creole:– evolves from pidgin,– expands at a greater rate,– develops a complete

grammatical structure,– is used in bilingual

education and literature, and

– becomes the first / mother language of the children whose parents spoke pidgin

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• What are differences between pidgin and creole?