The Late Modern English

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The Late Modern English
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Outline

• Introduction
• Historical Background of Late Modern English
• The Development of Late Modern English.
• The Main Aspects of Late Modern English.
• Borrowing.
• Compounding.
• Affixation.
• Spelling.
• The Varieties of Late Modern English
• A Sample text of a Late Modern English dialect.

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• What is Late Modern English?

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• Late Modern English is the form of the
  language used from the 18th century to the
  present day.

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• How do we know about Late Modern English?

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• There is a big number of printed data from the
  late 18th century to the present day
• Records of the language letters,
• Dictionaries Oxford dictionary,
• Towards the end of the 19 century the first
  mechanical and electronic recordings of speech
  were made songs, political speeches,...

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The Development of Late Modern English.
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The late Modern English timeline

• 1928 The Oxford English Dictionary is
  published
• 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation founded
• 1828 Noah Webster publishes his dictionary
• 1803 Act of Union unites Britain and Ireland
• 1788 British colony established in Australia
• 1782 Washington defeats Cornwallis at
  Yorktown. Britain abandons the
• American colonies
• 1776 Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration
  of Independence
• 1770 Cook discovers Australia
• 1755 Samuel Johnson publishes The Dictionary
  of English Language.
• 1702 Publication of the first daily,
  English-language newspaper, The Daily.

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• The main aspects of Late Modern English.

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• Borrowing

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An example of borrowing

• Before I went to the cinema, I ate a pizza
  in the
• restaurant in the food forum. The decor is
  pleasant and you can have a buffet there at the
  weekend.
• The entrées and main courses from the à la carte
• are also very good so its a great place for a
• rendezvous menu with your friends. But beware, if
  you are a gourmet, you will certainly need a
  siesta afterwards!

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Further examples

• borrowed words from Arabic
• Mecca
• Zero
• Jihad
• Alcohol
• Intifada

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• Compounding

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Compounding

• Composition.
• Clipping.

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• Composition, or compounding is to join two
  or more words together to make them one word
• Net work network
• Web site website
• Islam phobia Islamophobia
• Pass port passport

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Clipping!

• The English became less formal, clipping is
  fashionable now!!

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Examples!!

• Ads Advertisements.
• Tech Technology.
• Lab Laboratory.
• Gym Gymnastic.

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• Affixation!!

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Affixation

• Cyber crime cybercrime
• criminal activities carried out on computers or
  the Internet.

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• Astro biology astrobiology
• the branch of biology concerned with the
• discovery or study of life on other planets

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• Spelling!!

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• Swifts letter to the Earl of Oxford
  Mortimer, a senior official in the British
  government
• (R.L.Trask, Historical Linguistics, New York, ST
  Martines press 1996, P6)

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• The overuse of capital letters.
• The long S.

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• Varieties of Late Modern English!!
• dialects

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Late Modern English Varieties!!

L.M. English Varieties
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A sample of Late Modern English dialect.

• Many kinds of Late Modern English exist. Here is
  a part of a poem by Linton Kwesi Johnson, written
  in a variety of English known as
• Jamaican Creole
• youdauta,
• you are di queen of di day an di nite is your
  mite.
• site? overstan. youdauta.
• check out di tide before yu jump in di watah
• den swim, yea sing, sing youdauta.

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• Translation
• youdauta young women, mite might, realm of
  power, site? do you see it?
• ovastan overstand, an emphatic form of
• understand

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Young women, you are the queen of the day and the
night is your realm of power. Do you see it?
Understand, young women. Be aware of the tide
before you jump into the water then swim, yes
sing, sing, young women.
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• Thank you !!

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References

• http//www.tlumaczenia-angielski.info/linguistics/
  late-modern-english.htm
• http//www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Modern-Eng
  lish
• http//www.anglik.net/englishlanguagehistory.htm
• http//www.englishclub.com/english-language-histor
  y.htm
• Heinz Giegerich, An Introduction to Late Modern
  English, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, 2009.