English Language A-Level
Historical variation
What Historical variation means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Historical variation
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Includes archaic terms, semantic broadening, narrowing, amelioration and pejoration.
Topics that use Historical variation
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- Context
- Context and inferred meaning
- Context, audience and purpose
- Cooperative principle and implicature
- Discourse
- Genre
- Grammar as a meaning-making resource
- Graphology
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