Australian English Reimagined: Structure, Features and Developments

ISBN-13: 9781032085753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

Louisa Willoughby; Howard Manns

Opis

Australian English is best known for its colourful slang. This collection provides a much richer account by bringing together leading scholars of this English variety. They provide a comprehensive overview of Australian English’s distinctive features and outline cutting edge research into variation and change of English in Australia.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Australian English  Part 1: Features of Australian English  2. Phonetics and Phonology of Australian English  3. Tense, Aspect and Modality in Australian English  4. Negation in Australian English  5. Reimagining Discourse-pragmatic Features of Australian Englishes  6. Lexicon of Australian English  Part 2: Internal Variation in Australian English  7. Sociophonetics of Australian English  8. Lexical and Morphosyntactic Variation in Australian English  9. Aboriginal English(es)  10. Ethnolectal Variability in Australian English  Part 3: Historical Development of Australian English  11. History of Australian English  12. American Influences on Australian English  13. Codification of Australian English  14. Attitudes to Australian English  15. The Australian National Corpus (and beyond)

O autorze

Louisa Willoughby is a senior lecturer in linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

Howard Manns is a lecturer in linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.