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Introduction
We have seen that human language is fundamentally, inevitably creative. Many sentences that we produce have never been said before (Lecture 1), and there are all sorts of morphological processes that can create new words in English or any other language (Lecture 5). People play with language on every level, in every known human society. At one extreme are small puns and linguistic jokes; at the other are entire newly invented languages, such as the ones in Assignment 3. Through wordplay and other means, languages are always changing and adapting over the generations.
The Uniformitarian Hypothesis (Labov 1970, 1972) proposes that language change of the present day proceeds the same way it always has, as long as humans have had language. This is analogous to similar ideas in e.g. chemistry or physics or geology: we can study physical processes in the present and assume that they are showing us how these things also worked throughout (most of) the past.
In other words, the idea behind the Uniformitarian Hypothesis is that languages change – constantly – but the ways in which languages change are not, themselves, fundamentally different across time or space. Analogously, the composition of the atmosphere of the Earth has changed, but chemical reactions are the same as ever – we presume.
Your task
Write an essay taking a clear position on the following question: Does the Uniformitarian Hypothesis about language still hold in the age of modern online communication?
In other words, have email, texting, instant-messaging, etc. introduced new processes of language change, or are these just new forms of data that help reveal linguistic variation that has always been there?
Note that there is no correct response to this question, only more (or less) plausible answers supported by evidence.
Some possible positions (your essay should reflect exactly one of these and do so clearly):
- a) The Uniformitarian Hypothesis still holds, entirely, and here is why.
- b) The Uniformitarian Hypothesis mostly holds, and here is why.
- c) The Uniformiarian Hypothesis does not hold any longer, and here is why.
You will need to draw on course concepts – evidence – in order to explore this question and defend your position. A reminder to cite the course lectures and/or textbook if you use ideas you have learned from these sources, and to put quotation marks around any quotations.
You will also need at least one reputable external source about some aspect of the linguistics of online communication. (Note that this source can be in or about a language other than English, if you would like.) The article that we strongly recommend reading and then using in your argumentation is this one (Gawne and McCulloch 2019):
Gawne, Lauren, and Gretchen McCulloch (2019). Emoji as digital gestures. Language@Internet, 17, Article 2. <https://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2019/gawne>
If you would like to use a different article (or multiple articles), see the Tip Sheet for evaluating sources that is attached to the Assignment 3 instructions. Note that sources that simply criticize the use of language online or otherwise adopt a prescriptivist stance are not linguistically informed enough to be good choices of sources for this assignment.
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