1. 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

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

3. LEFT HAND SIDE – NAVIGATION – LRC – DATABASES

4. CLICK ‘OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY’

5. CLICK ‘HERE’

6. THE OED HOME PAGE – CLICK ‘ADVANCED SEARCH’

7. GO TO THE ‘DATE OF ENTRY’ FIELD

8. Enter a year
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)

9. 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

10. USING NGRAM VIEWER

11. 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?

12. HIPSTER

13. MINDFULNESS

14. 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