Social meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. In part, we decode the social meaning of a text through our recognition of different dimensions and levels of style within the same language
Blending is a process of word formation by which word is created by combinin ag parts of other words. Words formed in this way are called blends. From morphological viewpoints, there are four types of blending:
The English people are of mixed blood. At the beginning of the fifth century Britain was invaded by three tribes from the Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes
1. Morphology In American English, a number of irregular verbs have become regularised, while remaining irregular in British English: a)In many instances, it is only the voicing of the past tense morpheme -(e)d which has been changed to regularise the verb:
unilateral, bilateral, trilateral multilateral monogamy, polygamy inflexible, imbalance, irrational, illegal download, copyright, mother wit, green wealth We summered in Qingdao last year. English Lexicology(I)
