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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Blair; Peter Collins |
| ISBN: | 1556197292 9781556197291 9027248842 9789027248848 |
| OCLC Number: | 462318919 |
| Description: | vi, 366 s. : illustrations |
| Contents: | Vowel change -- synchronic and diachronic evidence; variation and change in Australian consonants -- reduction fo /t/; the vocalization of dark l in Australian English; hypocoristics of place-names; syntactic features and norms in Australian English; Australian English and indigenous voices; Australian English -- an identity crisis; corpus evidence on Australian style and usage; Torres Strait English; Aboriginal English -- adopted code of a surviving culture; ethnic varieties of Australian English; Australian English and recent migrant groups; the acquisition of colloquialisms by non-native speakers; changing attitudes to Australian English. (Part contents). |
| Series Title: | Varieties of English around the world., General series ;, 26 |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Blair, Peter Collins |
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This collection is essential for anyone interested in the history and current state of English and Englishes in Australia. The overall quality of the papers is high, they are well-written and clearly structured, and both authors and editors are to be congratulated. -- John Gibbons , Hong Kong Baptist University, in Journal of Mulilingual and Multicultural Development 24:3, 2003 Read more...
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- English language -- Spoken English -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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- English language -- Dialects -- Australia.
- Australianisms.
- English language -- Variation -- Australia.
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- Sociolinguistique.
- Anglais (Langue) -- Australie.
- Anglais (Langue) -- Australie -- Idiotismes.
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- sociolinguistics.
- Australianisms
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- English language -- Dialects
- English language -- Variation
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