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Author : James Jupp
Release : 2004-05-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The English in Australia by : James Jupp
Download or read book The English in Australia written by James Jupp. This book was released on 2004-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book looks at Australia in terms of English immigration and settlement over two centuries.
Author : David Blair
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 848/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis English in Australia by : David Blair
Download or read book English in Australia written by David Blair. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on variation within the dialect that include Aboriginal and ethnic varieties as well as regional and generational differences with a focus on questions of Australian identity and intercultural relations. With selected contributions by Australia's leading linguists this volume records the most recent developments in the study of English within Australia.
Author : Clemens W. A. Fritz
Release : 2007
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis From English in Australia to Australian English by : Clemens W. A. Fritz
Download or read book From English in Australia to Australian English written by Clemens W. A. Fritz. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From English in Australia to Australian English is the story of how the English language arrived in many different forms in Australia and how it evolved into a uniform variety in its own right. The corpus-based approach used here allowed empirical linguistic investigations that show intricate and intriguing developments. These prove that Australian English is not an ill-defined middle-ground between British and American English; it has its own history and its own future. Millions of words were collected and looked at. Thus the actual language used by settlers and convicts in court, in diaries, in letters, in newspapers, in poems and other text types forms the basis of this book. These results are complemented by in-depth sociohistorical analyses of environments and events that contributed to the formation of an antipodean variety of English.
Author : Kate Burridge
Release : 1999
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis English in Australia and New Zealand by : Kate Burridge
Download or read book English in Australia and New Zealand written by Kate Burridge. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English in Australia and New Zealand combines both theory and description, and introduces the major theoretical and methodical issues in modern linguistic study. It also provides an overview of the structure and history of the English language in its many varieties, especially those of Australia and New Zealand. The emphasis is on English as it is used everyday. Almost all the examples are drawn from culinary texts, spoken and written. These include cooking books throughout the centuries, food and wine magazines, and books about food, health, diet and even etiquette. The book integrates a synchronic and diachronic approach. A description of each aspect of present-day English - be it vocabulary, sounds, or grammar - is followed by a discussion of its historical development. The approach is purposefully eclectic and draws upon many different traditions and areas within linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary of points to remember, as well as practical exercises and questions for discussion.
Author : Gerhard Leitner
Release : 2013-02-06
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 87X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Australian English - The National Language by : Gerhard Leitner
Download or read book Australian English - The National Language written by Gerhard Leitner. This book was released on 2013-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public. What is it like? How has English changed by being transplanted to other parts of the world? Does the rise of AusE and other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language? Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which Australian English has developed. This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive and integrative approach that anchors English in the entire 'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from national status. The study is of interest for specialists of English and Australian Studies as well as a range of other disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics.
