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A 5 page research paper that examines the affect that nineteenth century journalism had on the evolution and development of the English language. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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during the Napoleonic Wars and its continuing control over world commerce throughout the nineteenth century, as well as the "great reform measures," i.e., the "reorganization of parliament, the revision of
the penal code and the poor laws," etc., all served to decrease the distance between "the upper and lower classes," while greatly increasing the opportunities available for all classes to
share in the "economic and cultural advantages" of the era (Baugh and Cable 279). One of the factors affecting British society was the establishment of the "first cheap newspaper"
in 1816 (Baugh and Cable 279). This development, along with others, had the effect of spreading the "influence of standard speech" (Baugh and Cable 279). Examination of the history of
journalism illustrates the affect that the emergence of widely-read newspapers had on the English language. Nineteenth century journalism was particularly adept at spreading the use of new words,
adding vocabulary to the language to describe the exciting new discoveries that have been taking place with regularity over the course of the last two centuries. In virtually every field
of science and endeavor, new words were coined in the nineteenth century. For example, the words "dynamo, commutator, alternating current, [and] arc light" were came into the language around 1870
(Baugh and Cable 280). Physics introduced the words "calorie, electron, ionization, ultraviolent rays quantum mechanics and relativity" (Baugh and Cable 280). In contemporary lexicon, the public is familiar with
a plethora of words that were coined in the nineteenth century and made know through printed media. For example, the average reader is aware that "combustion of food in the
body" is referred to as "metabolism," and the can "distinguish between proteins and carbohydrates" (Baugh and Cable 280). In other words, newspaper helped to disseminate the vocabulary necessary to understand
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