Betty Birner. (). Is english changing ?. Available: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/english-changing. Last accessed 22nd July 2015.

This article highlights all the possible reasons for how and why the English language is changing. It is hinted that through the use of new technology and products which we have to adjust to, we also accommodate our language to terminology of these items. We are also influenced by other languages so we may use foreign words which are becoming more popular, however as well as this it suggests accents from other languages also have an effect of the way we might pronunciation certain words. Finally one of the most significant affects I think would be age, different age groups old, young eg can have very seperate ways of speaking due to their surroundings and how they have grown up, we may believe that the older generation are closer to RP because they haven't been as heavily influenced by new and up coming 'trends' or even technology as much as an ever changing younger generation.

Deborah Cameron . (2007). What language barrier ?. Available: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/01/gender.books. Last accessed 3rd August 2015.

This article main theme is Tannens difference theory comparing male and females language used, and furthermore suggesting that they speak different languages. However as stated in this article we look out for differences in the language of different genders simply because they are different genders and we actively seek this, showing that we could be missing the simple similarities that they share but because of general stereotypes we might bypass this.

Lauren Lowry . (2013). Talking to young children makes a big difference !. Available: http://www.hanen.org/Helpful-Info/Articles/Talking-to-Young-Children-Makes-a-Big-Difference!.aspx. Last accessed 4th August 2015.

This article shows an investigation that took place to measure whether children can develop their language and speech through the parents/people around the children talking to them. Even though the children may not understand these words they are being exposed to a variety of vocabulary, this can enhance or maybe quicken the child's development of their language and speech, however it is known that children's own education develops in their own time so some children may just develop the same amount of vocabulary but at a later learning stage.

Emily Sohn. (2011). Is this the end of men or the beginning of women ?. Available: http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics/women-men-workplace-110920.htm. Last accessed 11th August 2015.

In this article Sohn mentions how women's roles in society is changing, going from the traditional housewife mother figure during the war period now going into a more dominating role such as more females graduating college and receiving higher paid/important jobs that traditionally the man would have taken. This can be seen as threatening to the man however due to the basic physiology of the body some certain roles are more suited to a particular gender therefore there will never be a complete take over of one gender however it may go through peaks and troughs of a slightly overpowering gender even if it's by the slightest fraction.

John McWhorter. (2013). Is texting killing the english language ?. Available: http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/25/is-texting-killing-the-english-language/. Last accessed 11th August 2015.

This article has been adapted from a TED talk, it is said that texting is more similar to the spoken language rather than the written language as it is less formal and more of a way of casually communicating without actually speaking. Texting has caused language used to become very lazy and non standard, adapting our everyday speech to similarly do the same as it is becoming more natural to us and more commonly used by the people around us. For example lol is a shortened textism for laugh out loud, this was used possibly for humour reasons and because it it quick and simple to type out and this has also transferred into our everyday language that when we hear someone speak "lol" it doesn't shock us as this has become the 'norm'.