Résumé ou Introduction
David Crystal's essay “Language Developments in British English” deals with recent changes of the English Language and its causes. Throughout the text, Crystal points out that Language changes alongside culture and society. Moreover, he alludes that they do not only change to a similar extend, but that they also have a strong impact on one another. The author collects arguments in favour of language change and against it. The following text seeks to discuss the text by David Crystal against the background of the given statement by Jonathan Swift, moreover it will be carved out whether the arguments which oppose language change outweigh the ones which support it.
- Citation du texte
- M. A., M. Ed. Felix Krenke (Auteur), 2012, On David Crystal's "Language developments in British English", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1007999
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