Section A Language Change Q

This Q asks you to analyse 2 texts.

Text B is always a very recent text.

Text A may also be recent but it could also date back to

any time from 1600 onwards

Text A may therefore be in EME or Modern

English.

The Question

The question will contain 2 bullet

points:

BP1 asks you to analyse the texts and how they use language with a

focus on representation(AO1

& AO3)

BP2 asks you to discuss a theoretical aspect of language

change e.g. evaluate different ways of explaining

how language changes (AO2)

Introduction1. GMAPP Text A

2. GMAPP Text B

3. Give overview comparison of both texts inc:

Style & Register

Sentence structure

Layout

Representation of topic

The EME Text (Text A only)

• Period lexis• Varied

orthography (spelling)

• Variations in sentence structure (e.g. word order)

4. Analyse the text for

variations from

Contemporary English:

Modern Text

• CMC status & interactivity

• Any examples of semantic shift

• Any examples of modern word formation processes

5. Analyse any aspects related to

the document

being a modern text:

AO1

Remember as you are analysing to use frameworks including:

Detailed word classes

Rhetorical devices

Clause structures

AO3 - Context

In your analysis of each slide you need to refer to the context of writing and

ways in which this may have shaped the language used

EME – refer to Standardisation; Crystal’s “Spell it out”; Johnson’s

Dictionary; Victorian culture.

Modern English – refer to technology

and it’s effects; fashion; war etc.

AO2 - Theories

In this section you use theories to discuss the question in BP2