English in Australia
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English in Australia
(Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 26)
John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2001
- : Eur
- : US
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Language and identity in Australia (by Collins, Peter)
- 3. Section A: English in Australia: structure
- 4. Phonology
- 5. Vowel change: synchronic and diachronic evidence (by Cox, Felicity)
- 6. Variation and change in Australian consonants: reduction of /t/ (by Tollfree, Laura)
- 7. The vocalisation of dark l in Australian English (by Borowsky, Toni)
- 8. Morphology
- 9. Hypocoristics of place-names (by Simpson, Jane)
- 10. Syntax
- 11. Syntactic features and norms in Australian English (by Newbrook, Mark)
- 12. Lexicon
- 13. Australian English and indigenous voices (by Moore, Bruce)
- 14. Australian English - an identity crisis (by Butler, Susan)
- 15. Corpus evidence on Australian style and usage (by Peters, Pam)
- 16. Section B: English in Australia: variation
- 17. Torres Strait and Aboriginal
- 18. Torres Strait English (by Shnukal, Anna)
- 19. Aboriginal English: adopted code of a surviving culture (by Malcolm, Ian G.)
- 20. Ethnic varieties
- 21. Ethnic varieties of Australian English (by Clyne, Michael)
- 22. Australian English and recent migrant groups (by Kiesling, Scott F.)
- 23. Diachronic and generational variation
- 24. The acquisition of colloquialisms by non-native speakers (by Curtain, Jane)
- 25. Changing attitudes to Australian English (by Bradley, David)
- 26. A.G. Mitchell and the development of Australian pronunciation (by Yallop, Colin)
- 27. Lexicography and national identity: the Australian experience (by Delbridge, Arthur)
- 28. Australian English in interaction with other Englishes (by Taylor, Brian)
- 29. Regional variation
- 30. Short A in Australian English: a geolinguistic study (by Horvath, Barbara M.)
- 31. Index
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