As Connie Eble highlights in her summary of Sociolinguistics, “the study of how language serves and is shaped by the social nature of human beings.” It looks in to how society and language works, how they relate to each and how it changes across various environments. All of which is controlled by us as humans [...]
Language is forever changing. As discussed in Sociolinguistics society is changing and therefore language changes with it, new inventions bring new words and new ways of saying and describing things. Within language change a important area I want to investigate is Lexical Change. Lexical Change Lexical change is the change in the meaning or use [...]
Social Network Analysis Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the understanding of people and connection with regards to social networking, allowing us better insight in how we best interact to share information with each other. This can be measured between individuals, groups, organisations to name a few. This is relative in my field of study to [...]
Thanks to Professor John Coleman, Director at Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, he pointed me in the direction of a very interesting read on the origin of the word ‘Quiz’. And it was this that began to spark some thoughts in to how words that must have been used years ago meant something completely different to [...]