Origins of English paragraph

Shakespeare uses the rhetorical interrogative 'how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seems to me all the uses of this world?' to describe his character Hamlet's wishes to take his own life. At the time this play was first shown, suicide would have been seen as a great sin as Catholicism was followed in such an orthodox fashion. It is likely due to this context that this would have left the audience very shocked that such an act was spoken about so casually. It could be argued from this that the expectations of text consumption are being fulfilled as the nature of such a text would be to entertain and use of such a taboo topic would have certainly caused unrest and entertainment. It could also be argued that for the same reason the expectations of the text are not being fulfilled because it is probable that many of the audience members wold have been outraged about such an act being somewhat normalised by a play. Furthermore, the phrase 'uses of this world' connotes a certain selfishness in that it refers to taking from the world as oppose to giving. This is likely to have further, shocked an audience who were likely to be religious and therefore brought up to believe in a giving, worshipping environment.  

article comparison

Article comparison

Section of an article that displays language change negatively

Section of an article that displays language change positively

Teens these days do not use their thumbs for hitching rides on the side of the road. They use their thumbs to text rapid-fast messages to their friends on their cellphones. But, because keypads on cellphones are so tiny and typically thumbs are not, and each number key represents multiple letters, the tight maneuvering can lead to quite a few spelling mistakes.
Mistakes that can lead to hilarity—and to neologisms.
That’s right. The rapid-fast world of text-messaging has lead to the coining of new words. Well, new slang words.
For instance, did you know that pwn means own and that noobs means newbies?
But how can a spelling mistake become a word added to our common lexicon? It has to do with staying power. And these days a slang word is more likely than ever before to stick around. That’s because of where the slang is being used—in the cybersphere—it has more chances to reach across age groups, demographics, cultures, and societies. It can permeate. It can get picked up in the main stream and suddenly, what was once a spelling mistake can now be overheard in conversations on the street being held by parents, business professionals and even grandparents.
But do we have to worry about how slang and short forms is affecting teens’ language development? Not if they are able to use whole forms and demonstrate complete and competent language skills in areas that they need to, like in proper speech or on an essay. This viewpoint on teens and text-messaging is a departure from our opinion of text messaging and language development in children who are in the lower-level grades and who are still are acquiring their language skills.
According to Katherine Barber of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the fact that teens are developing new slang words is a good thing. “If the kids are picking up new words and new meanings then that means that they’re playing with the language,” she says. Spelling mistakes and the slang words that develop from rapid-fast thumb texting mean that kids are thinking about words, spelling and meaning, and that teens are playing an active role in language development.
Teens thinking about language and new words? They deserve two thumbs up.

Comparison

It is interesting that the two articles are both stating that he same thing is occurring but one states that it is negative and the other that it is positive; I think that the difference in grammar is a big reason for the change in tone across the two articles. The first article has a common use of more compound and complex sentences such as ‘adjectives such as ‘fantastic’ and ‘disastrous’ are rarely heard, and when they are the speaker is often referred to as posh’ (compound). This appears to create a more descriptive, factual and less upbeat tone in comparison with the second article which uses more simple sentences and sentence fragments such as ‘teens these days do not use the thumbs for hitching rides on the side of the road’ (simple). This common use of more simple grammar is creating a more, relaxed, accepting tone, furthermore, by using more simple grammar it appeals to the audience by showing that simple (and perhaps different) language to what you would find in an article is not a Bad thing.

It is also relevant to consider lexical differences across the two texts, in contrast with the grammatical difference, the second text appears to use much more complex lexis than the first one, it could even be argued that a linguistic-based special lexicon is present due to words such as ‘neologisms’ ‘common lexicon’ and ‘demographics’. By using this exclusive lexis, it gives readers the idea that there is more evidence to support the idea that slang and young people’s language change is not a bad thing. It could even be argued that in this context the language is used as a phatic token, giving status and an educated tone to what might be thought of as a poorly supported argument.