- language change:
- descriptive attitudes - you can't discriminate against words, all language is vital
- prescriptive attitudes - only one way, standard English is the only thing that should be used
- descriptivism/prescriptivism
- language is a window onto human nature:
- language emerges from human minds interacting with one another
- visible in unstoppable language changes
- slang&jargon, historical change, dialect divergence, language formation
- communication model:
- sender - message - receiver
- euphemistic language to talk about topics that are hard to discuss
- social, historical and cultural context
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