The document discusses notes from a LINB60 week 5 class. It covers topics like Beowulf being written in Old English, top-down and bottom-up social changes in history, definitions of idiolect, dialect and topolect, how the Middle Ages were also known as the dark ages due to plagues, and differences between English, French and German grammar and origins.
The document discusses notes from a LINB60 week 5 class. It covers topics like Beowulf being written in Old English, top-down and bottom-up social changes in history, definitions of idiolect, dialect and topolect, how the Middle Ages were also known as the dark ages due to plagues, and differences between English, French and German grammar and origins.
The document discusses notes from a LINB60 week 5 class. It covers topics like Beowulf being written in Old English, top-down and bottom-up social changes in history, definitions of idiolect, dialect and topolect, how the Middle Ages were also known as the dark ages due to plagues, and differences between English, French and German grammar and origins.
Top-down changes (government) Bottom-down changes (- “normal”/ common people) Sans means without English is like French, but vast differently from German. And the grammar is more like German. Idiolect- individual Dialect – particular group Topolect – different family The Middle Ages also refers to the dark ages because at that time, there are black death and such diseases. A university not an university Latin- church- English