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G301 Notes For Oct. 5th, by Ryan Posey

A GOOD TEXT ANALYSIS

  1. ORGANIZATION
    • CATEGORIES OF ANALYSIS
      • SOUNDS/ORTHOGRAPHY
      • SPELLING/PHONETICS
      • GRAMMAR
      • VOWELS
      • WORD ORDER/SYNTAX
      • VOCAB/LEXICAL
  2. USE EXAMPLES: IF YOU SEE A PATTERN USE MULTIPLE EXAMPLES
  3. ANALYZE EXAMPLES
    • WHAT DOES THIS SHOW ABOUT OLD ENG?

    1.  The Norman Conquest  Sept. 27

     

    2.  The use of French after the Norman Conquest       

    • court  
    • religious communities  
    • fortified estates

     

    3.  Use of English is continuing

    • tenant farmers  
    • Eng/French contact leads to borrowings  
    • 10% of all French borrowings 1066-1400

     

    4.  Social and political change after 1200          

    • loss of Normandy   
    • anti-immigrant sentiment   
    • attitudes toward French

     

    5.  Uses of French decline (chapter 3.8)

     

    Henry III (1216-1272) replaced court w/ family members.  They came over to London.  A bunch of French people imported making political decisions in England.  People are getting mad because of the flood of foreigners.  On the other hand French is a beautiful language.

     

    6.  100 years war (1337-1453) It ruins the economy, finances fall,     population grows.

     

    7.  Black Death kills millions

     

    Language reference works are developed to help improve language.

     

     

     

    PGS. 139-139

     

    The 4 features of standardization

     

    • selection
    • codification
    • elaboration
    • implementation

     

     

     

    SWIFT'S THEORY OF LANGUAGE

     

     

    • imperfect
    • its improvements outpaced by daily corruptions
    • "reformers" have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities
    • it offends against every part of grammar

     

     CONTRACTING

     

    Process of change that has become common to us

     

    (Drudg'd, Disturb'd)

     

    (Loved, Walked)

     

    You can't hear the endings w/ a few exceptions now days like beloved.

     

     CLIPPING

     

     Form gets shortened or played with(Taxi, Fridge, Auto, E-mail)

     

    SWIFT'S ACADEMY NEVER GETS APPROVED

     

    1604 First Eng. dictionary produced

    1755 Johnson's dictionary is a big step forward

    • 40,000 words  
    • 114,000 quotations from the renaissance forward  
    • different senses- more than one meaning

     

    He thought he could "fix" the English language but realized it wasn't possible to "fix" a language.

     

    SKIP 100 YEARS

     

    Murray Oxford Eng. Dictionary

     

    1150

     

    Study Questions

    1. Describe the four features of standardization?
    2. Descibe the theory of language of Swift, Johnson, and Murray?
    3. Name three social or political changes that ocurred after 1200

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