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Texts in time

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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Texts in time
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Diversity and change: Language change
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Includes answers
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Student activity

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Students explore a range of historic texts from the Early Modern period to the late twentieth century and attempt to put them into chronological order, as well as considering descriptivist and prescriptivist views about language change. Does change represent decay, evolution or stalemate? Include answers and an extension activity. 

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