Jean Aitchinson - Crumbling Castle, Damp Spoon, Change is an infectious disease, Norman Tebbitt - If you allow your language to slip you drop your standards in life and become criminal, David Crystal - Tide model, language washes up and old language washes away, Oliver Kamm - English is not endangered, it is meant to change , Pinker (2003) - Words used to replace offensive language also become pejorative, Chen’s S Curve Model - Language takes time to enter and dies out once accepted , Peter Trudgill - Language spreads through cities and misses out on small dwellings, Bailey’s Wave Model - People far from where a word is adapted will miss out on its usage, Halliday - 7 Functions of Language, Language adapts to its users needs, Hockett - Random errors often become standardised after repeated use e.g ‘me and you’, William Caxton - Printing Press, Samuel Johnson - Dictionary , Robert Lowth - First grammar rules, Labov - Changes depend on your social group ,

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