22.1584, Qs: Sources of Change: The American English Vocabulary

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Subject: 22.1584, Qs: Sources of Change: The American English Vocabulary

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Date: 07-Apr-2011
From: Rina Zholobova [hellagood at list.ru]
Subject: Sources of Change: The American English Vocabulary

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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:30:03
From: Rina Zholobova [hellagood at list.ru]
Subject: Sources of Change: The American English Vocabulary

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Hello,

I'm writing a diploma paper (specialist degree) and the theme is "The 
sources of enlarging the American English vocabulary at the present 
stage". The research is determined by the constantly evolving and 
increasing vocabulary of American English, the object for study in the 
diploma paper is the sources of enlarging the American English 
vocabulary and the subject is peculiarities of American English 
vocabulary usage. 

Contents:

I. Theoretical Section
1.1. The problem of the American English development (which linguists 
took up this question, if there were any difficulties, how fast it develops 
and in what direction, is there any pronounced tendency)
1.2. The sources of enlarging the American English vocabulary (I don't 
know exactly what should I include here, maybe different borrowings, 
slang)

II. Types of changes (Only for the last decade) 
2.1. Phonetic changes
2.2. Grammar changes
2.3. Lexical changes
2.4. Semantic changes

III. The 21st Century Development
I want to include the latest changes in the American English language, 
by illustrating different sources of vocabulary from social networks, 
movies, cartoons, etc (I've read that the Longman Dictionary has 
included some interjections from "The Simpsons", and I want to use this 
information as well).

I don't have enough information because of the lack of the articles, 
materials, and books in our libraries and the Internet is my only helper 
for now, but it is still not very productive. I've found some works by 
Russian linguists about the phenomena of "Spanglish" and how 
Spanish affects American English. I would accept any 
recommendations and advice with a great pleasure. 

In my diploma paper I want to consider only the latest changes in 
American English (the last 10 years). I need any information connected 
with the aspects above (articles, resources, materials, links, any 
advice). 

Thank you,
Rina Zholobova 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

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