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"Language Project"

For A level English Language we're meant to write some sort of niche language study on a very small specific aspect of the English language. This can include language aqusition in children (I have no children as test subjects), or the language of sport (Motson would drive me mad), so I need some similar suggestions, though with a perhaps less stereotyped subject areas.

I've been thinking about either analysing the language of text messages compared to other forms of digital communication (emails, message boards, etc), or the development of the word gay and how its connotation had changed over time, though I am entirely open to suggestions.

You could do something about the gradual disappearence of accents; the Kent accent was once the most impenetrable dialect in the country, but nowadays Kent is a byword for BBC RP English accents.

Maybe something about the origin of the word "English"; it's probably derived from the Angles and Anglish Teutons who invaded England during the Dark Ages, but there's bound to be other explanations.

How about something on the dual (or more) meaning of language, and how it is possible to construct sentences of stunning ambiguity in the English language, or (as many judges do) put together a speech that on paper looks dry and uncontroversial, but when actually read out is turned into a diatribe because of the tone used (the tone thus giving the words in the speech with more than one meaning a very definite meaning).

I might launch a study into the language use in A level English Language studies, and conradict myself

Brevity - an in depth study.


That was lame. *Kicks self in face*

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> pointless gay mini-studies come second.

So you're going to be covering the language of the hairdresser, then?

I'm in the exact same boat, Kyz.
Although haven't though about it yet.

Summer comes first, pointless gay mini-studies come second.

How about:

How Gangsta Speak gets from Africa and other sources into Modern English.

The history of the Apostrophe.

Telling Stories – How the Internet has broadened the art of Story Telling.

Nah, you just need a starting point.

You could study the Bushisms, words he's invented, language structure. I've got a book somewhere.

Oh shut up, I've already gone back to correct 3 typos. In a post about English Language A Level. God, I really am screwed.

And quite obviously drunk, you fool

As a note, we were told about starting this today, and the examiners report from last year recommended against anything about text messaging as it's been done to death recently.

That said, I'm totally screwed too.