Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English

ISBN-13: 9780367029333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Cara Penry Williams

Opis

Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society. Utilising folklinguistic accounts, it uncovers everyday understandings of contemporary Australian English through variations across linguistic systems (sounds, words, discourse and grammar).

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Conceptualising social meaning  3. Studying social meaning via folklinguistics  4. Phonetic and phonological variation  5. Lexical variation  6. Discourse and grammatical variation  7. Social types and language ideologies

O autorze

Cara Penry Williams has a master’s degree in applied linguistics and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne. After many years of teaching and researching at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, she is now a Lecturer in English Language at University of Derby in the UK and an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University.