WE ARE STARTING OFF WITH COMPONENT 2: SECTION B STARTING POINT: USING THE OED TO FIND WORDS THAT ENTERED THE DICTIONARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY English in the 21st Century Your first key concepts: DIACHRONIC CHANGE SYNCHRONIC CHANGE DIA = THROUGH/ACROSS SYN = TOGETHER CHRONIC = TIME

GO TO THE ASFC MOODLE VLE – ‘LEARNING RESOURCES’ – ‘LIBRARY’

LEFT HAND SIDE – NAVIGATION – LRC – DATABASES

CLICK ‘OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY’

CLICK ‘HERE’

THE OED HOME PAGE – CLICK ‘ADVANCED SEARCH’

GO TO THE ‘DATE OF ENTRY’ FIELD

Enter a year 2000-2003 FIND A WORD THAT HAS ENTERED THE DICTIONARY BECAUSE OF: NEW ACADEMIC RESEARCH NEW TECHNOLOGIES CHANGING CULTURAL CONTEXT (INC. POP CULTURE) CLICK ON EACH WORD AND FIND OUT ITS ETYMOLOGY (ITS ORIGIN)

Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts frequencies of any words in Google books corpora of works written in a variety of languages including English

USING NGRAM VIEWER

LOOK AT THE CHARTS FOR ‘HIPSTER’, ‘MINDFULNESS’ AND ‘RAP’ With a partner discuss… What patterns are revealed by the data? What contextual factors can you suggest for these patterns?

HIPSTER

MINDFULNESS

Now find ngrams that show: ANSWERS ON STICKY NOTES NEXT TASK: Now find ngrams that show: …the decrease in usage of a word over the period …a marked increase in the use of a word over the period …a word that decreases in popularity then increases again ANSWERS ON STICKY NOTES