paper 3 blog - PAPPIIIII CHULLOOOO

 

Text A  is an excerpt written by Edward Berens, which is a letter written by an uncle to a nephew in 1832. Following this meaning that the lexus and form of language choice is similar but not exact to modern English now in the present day. The lexus and form change originates at the beginning of text A when it says the text is a series of letters which are hardly used now in modern day. We communicate through Emails and text messages similar but not exact to a letter. This also pushes me to expand on how advancements in technology have influenced this as well.

In text A Edward states the word ‘company’ used to represent a goal or group which is referred to in the same sentence of the word in which it was used. This shows a semantic change in the language used in Text A as nowadays we would use the word “Company” to represent a Commercial Business started by the ‘Company’ owner. The word Company has expanded since then as previously stated with the technological advancements and with businesses expanding every single day. With almost 150 years apart in writing lexical changes we have come out with more economic change as we have become more of a capitalist government forcing more people to start Companies to make money. This one word has change its meaning over time with national growth in our country and with lexical changes in our linguistic system.

Text B is a collocates chart that has a list of Adjectives that correlate with the words such as Judgement and Taste. The Colocates chart was referring to the British National Corpus ranging from the years 1890 and 1993. One of the words stated,’Judgment’, corresponds with the words ‘better’ and ‘clinical’ as shown in the chart which can also correlate with words ‘personal’ and ‘good’. This is showing semantic changes as all 4 words have lexical similarities at different points in time as the word has adapted multiple meanings over the course of many decades. As these words change over time the words also expand. This goes to show the theory made by a man named Wright who said that as language grows and people move, the language is influenced by contact with other languages. As time went on with the word such as taste it was moved to change meaning from how you feel like something “taste” referring to a personal sense and food, it evolved to how you feel about something or someone which correlates with the word judgment which is defined by one's feelings on an action or thing.

Text C is an n-gram graph for the phrases are apt to be’ ,’are likely to be’ and ’tend to be’ ranging from the years 1800 to the year 2008. In the graph it shows how each word's usage changed over time and how some became more popular rather than others. In text a the least used phrases ‘are apt to be ’ was used by the writer with a text used in an older format in the year 1832. This goes to show that this word's usage decreased and was not used because the other phrases were not as popular as the letters were written in the time where the phrase was more popular. After this certain point the phrase ‘are apt to be’ is used less frequently and becomes less used as time goes on. A theory that follows this evidence is the S-Curve theory which states that the language phrases start to limit the adapts and changes. This is showing in the n gram chart by the differences in each year with the phrases usages increasing and decreasing over time.

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