Changes in Language Use over time

Worked examples (6)

• 1Read a multi-line n-gram that COMPARES related words
• 2Recognise displacement — one form replacing another
• 3Distinguish displacement from near-synonyms diverging
• 4Move from DESCRIBE to EXPLAIN to CONTEXTUALISE
• 5Synthesise a comparison graph with text and a word-table
• 6Apply the cautions — relative frequency, corpus composition, correlation

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, focused data-response style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, data-interpretation style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, full data-response essay
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, multi-source synthesis essay
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, evaluative synthesis essay
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, methods and approaches focus

Worked examples (6)

• 1Name the parts of speech precisely before you analyse change
• 2Explain conversion (functional shift) as the engine of word-class change
• 3Read an n-gram that splits one word into its parts of speech
• 4Track a declining versus a rising class — modal verbs and intensifiers
• 5Read a POS-tagged corpus word-table
• 6Apply the Describe → Explain → Contextualise method and structure the essay

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, focused data-response style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, data-interpretation style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, full data-response essay
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, multi-source synthesis essay
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, evaluative synthesis essay
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 3 Section A, methods and approaches focus