Magazine Article

What does the future hold?

Manchester City want away striker Carlos Tevez is considering a move to Brazilian Club Corinthians as he feels he wants to be closer to home. Tevez has played for Corinthians before and so he knows the club and what they can do. This feeling of wanting to be closer to home first arose when his girlfriend wouldn’t move out to Manchester and so he wanted to be closer to her and closer to his original home. He has become a national symbol for football and is well liked and so he will be sorely missed if he decides to go and continue his career in Brazil. A £35 million pound offer has already been made by Corinthians however; this offer was officially turned down by Manchester City in the late evening yesterday. A shock interest for the striker has come from Spanish side Real Madrid, it is believed that they have stated their interest in the striker to his agent and now Tevez may have to reconsider his option to move back closer to home. Corinthians will have to increase their bid if they are to lure the striker away from Eastland’s and now with the interest from Spanish giants Madrid they have even tougher opposition. We understand that City are going to pursue the signing of Sergio Aguero once Tevez’s future is settled. City are in no mood to rush the decision on Tevez until the asking price is met. Although the transfer window in Brazil shuts on the 20^th July, so there is little time to negotiate with Corinthians. Tevez’s contract is understood to be worth in excess of £200,000 and it remains to be seen if the Brazilian club will match those lucrative terms. Initially it seemed a fanciful prospect that Tevez would be able to move to South America as no club had the financial backing to sign him. However the massive transfer fee which is almost treble the club record of £13.7million that they paid to bring him to the club in 2004, will be funded through money from T.V rights and sponsorship.

 “Brazil’s economy is booming and there is a new T.V deal that is going to the Brazilian Clubs a lot of money on the table for them” said BBC South America football correspondent Tim Vickery.

Tevez handed in a transfer request at Eastland’s in December 2010 but later withdrew it, he struggled with form towards the latter if the season but he still finished joint top scorer with Manchester United’s Dimitar Berbatov as City finished third.

Corinthians vice director of football Duilio Alves has admitted that the figure of £50 million would be one that they may not be able to afford. Yet he wants to sign Tevez on a season long loan as they need to raise the money to be able to purchase him.

“Everybody is working to make this move happen” said Kia Joorabchian Tevez’s agent. Tevez himself has come out and said that he would only play for Corinthians or Boca Juniors if he returns to Brazil, as they are two teams that are closest to his heart

Following on..............

Another key difference in the articles is that in the article from The Mirror it uses a lot of quotes whereas the other two only use a few, the majority of the article is formed with quotes from Luca Modric himself, showing the readers what his view is.

Also each newspaper says that he is going for a different price, The Guardian says he is going for 25 million pounds, The Mirror says 22 million and BBC News says 27 million, so one of theses can only be right.

Key Differences

Key differences in articles about Luca Modric (Tottenham Football Player)

One article is from The Guardian, one is from The Mirror and the other is from BBC News.

The key differences in these 3 articles are firstly the way they are written, The Guardian is written out in fairly large paragraphs whereas, The Mirror and BBC News are both written out in short two line paragraphs. Following on the language used in The Guardian is more intellectual which represents the readers, with words such as 'acrimonious' where The Mirror uses phrases such as 'no possibility i can leave Spurs' so we can see the drastic difference in language.

Gasp 1

The genre of this text is a magazine article promoting a company called 'Black Arrow'. It is aimed at office building owners encouriging them to refurbish their offices.

Birmingham accent

In some of my research people seem to believe that Shakespeare had a influence on the birmingham accent, and also they say that he spoke in an accent similiar to the birmingham accent of today. Although this is just in theory and has not actually been proven. Many people believe that immigration form other countries had a major influence because many were employed in and around Birmingham.

Some examples of famous people with the accent is Jasper Carrot, Frank Skinner, Adrian Chiles, Bill Oddie.

Some characteristics in the brummie accent The vowels in "price" and "choice" may be almost merged as [ɒɪ] so that the two words would almost rhyme. However, the two are still distinct, unlike the Black Country dialect.
In more old-fashioned Brummie accents, the FORCE set of words takes [ʌʊə] and the PURE set takes [uːə], so both sets were in two syllables. In such an old-fashioned accent, the words paw, pour and poor would all be said differently: [pɔː], [pʌʊə], [puːə]. In more modern accents.

Some words used are:

Babby 

Variation of "baby"

Bawlin, Bawl 

To cry, as in "She started to bawl'"

Cob 

A bread roll (comes from the fact bread rolls look like street cobbles)

Donnies

Hands, "Go and wash your donnies"

Go and play up your own end 

Said to children from a different street making a nuisance. It has been used as the title of the autobiographical book and musical play about the Birmingham childhood of radio presenter and entertainer Malcolm Stent

Gunter 

To fix, work on or repair, mainly used a verb (example usage "I'm gonna gunter the car" equates to "I'm going to repair the car"), other forms include 'guntered' (example usage "the car's guntered" equates to "the car is fixed", alternate usage "I guntered the tele, but it still doesn't work" equates to "I worked on the television, but it is still broken")

Keep away from the 'oss road / Mind the 'orse road / Kip aert th'oss road 

An admonition to travel safely, originally a warning to children in the days of horse-drawn traffic. "Th'oss road" may also have referred to the towpath alongside the canals found throughout the region, which presented the additional hazard to the unwary of falling into the canal. These expressions too, are commonly attributed to Black Country dialect rather than that from Birmingham

Our Wench 

Affectionate term, meaning 'sister' or sometimes used by a husband referring to his wife

Details of the accent it is not the only accent in the west midlands as people seem to think but it is distinct from the traditional accent of the black country however, modern day population tend to blur the distinction.

Language Change - Is it good/bad

- Arguments for and against language change

For -

Language change is good because it needs to accomadate technological advances.
Helps to perform personal and group identity.
closes the gap between different cultures.
Change reflects fashions of that time.

Against-

Words can change meanings.
Creates boundries between generations.
Encourages socially innapropriate behaviour.
Words can get negative connotations because of views of society.
English should resist change to protect its history/tradition.
ESOL different to keep up with constant change.

My view-

I believe that language change is good because it helps to name new products that come into the market, otherwise there would be nothing to call them. It helps people to socisalise with friends and they may use words in a different way to others.

What are the most important influences on language change?

The most important influences on langauge change are media and fashion because new products are created all the time and they need to be giving names, so therefore new names are given to these products, also with fashion not everything can have the same name so again they need to gove new products names and therefore this contributes to language change.

Do you think some of the more recent additions to language will survive?

I don't think that some of the new additions to language will survive e.g. (bare, butters, peng, mandem) because they tend to be used by the younger generation and will fade away as they get older. I say this because new kids will come up with new words and these older words will eventually go and be replaced because language changes all the time.

PLAGERISM!!!!

Owen Hackett's 'Key events in History' post looks suspiciously a lot like my own work, i think something dodgy may be going on.....................

Key events in History

The printing press: 1476

The printing press had a huge impact on the development of laqnguage, this is mostly down to thepublication of books and the education of the people.

- Spelling was more standardised, pronouciation was developed.

- Standard english form is recognised, the grammatical changed slowed.

- Publication of books and education.

Dictionaries:

The first book that listed english words was Richard Mulcaster's 'Elementsaire', this was published in 1582.

Robert Cowdrey wrote the forst alphabetical English dictionary called 'Table Alphabetical' which was published in 1604, it listed approxiamtely 3000 words!

Samuel Johnson's dictionary was different and more influencial because it listed 40,000 words and was done by the help of volunteers.

The idea for The English Oxford Dictionary was created in 1850's, although it was eventually started in 1879, The plan was to create a vast and comprehensive collection of english words from the early middle english period onwards.

The Online English Dictionary was created in 2000, and it was easy and simple to use; also it was more updated then any other dictionary before, you could search for words much easier and there are also quotations on there.

I am definately suprised at how much the english language has changed since the 5th century, there are so many different languages that have influened english and when you listen to old versions of english they don't even sound like english, also it's wierd to see how people used to write in english some of it doesnt even make sense to me.

What have i learnt today?

Accents and Dialects

Dialect - A specific variety of english defined by grammer, lexis and phonlology

Accent - Differences in sound patterns of a specific dialect

Early origins of english

5th Century - The Anflo saxons invasion

- 4 major dialects - West Saxon, Northumbria,kentish and mercian
- Cornish, Welsh and Cubric languages develop.
- 449 AD, the angles, saxons and jutwa began to arrive in the UK.
- Words from this era include - candle, cucumber, cheese, elephant, street and wine.

8th century the viking invasion

-English pronouns originated from this era.
-More than 1500 place names have originated by Scandinavia e.g. Yorkshire , Lincolnshire
-examples of words - awkward, band, bull, steak and want.
1066 The Norman Conquest

-latin and french had a huge influence
-words like - administration, miracle and councilm liberty, confess, army and battle

Birmingham Accent

Looking at articles on the internet, most say that the 'brummie' is unemployable, undesirable, has no social status and isn't nice to listen too. Foreigners are known to like the sound of the accent because they are unaware of the negative connotations that go with the accent. It seems that people with a birmingham accent find it difficult to get a job, people generally find that in order to get a job they need to cnahge thier accent. 
- Were these ideas new to you?

Yes, i didn't know that the 'Brummie' accent was "unemployable and undesireable", i didn't realise people were so judgemental about it.

- Were you aware of your own attitudes towards the accent?

No, i don't really care what accent people have it doesn't stop them from being a nice person, and it doesn't effect what they do or how they do it.

- Do you think that having a Birmingham accent puts people at a disadvantage?
Yes i do believe that having a birmingham accent puts people at a disadvantage because people see it as "unemployable" so therefore people with this accent will struggle to find a job that will accept them. Also because most people see the accent as undesirable people with the accent will find it hard to be liked.

- Do you think accents matter? why/why not?

No, personally i believe that accents do not matter, people shouldn't be judged on the way they speak, it's the way you present yourself and the way that you are with other people that actually matters.

English is a badman subject get me!!!!!!!!!!