Understanding Australian English

Author : Ian McKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1105912051

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Understanding Australian English by Ian McKenzie Pdf

English is a living language which is constantly changing. "Understanding Australian English: An Essential Guide to Understanding Aussies and being Understood by Aussies in Australia. Australian Slang Explained" explores and explains the uniqueness of Australian English. Words which may be offensive in some English speaking cultures are sometimes used by Aussies in an affectionate way with their mates. Very often the contexts in which words are spoken are much more important than the words themselves. Aussies use of hyperbole and their very Australian sense of humour is reflected in their colloquialisms. You will learn and understand more about Aussies after reading this book. This publication is 178 pages in length, and the informative text is punctuated with Aussie photos which have been taken by the Author. In addition to the printed book, there is also a version available as an e-book.

Author : Louisa Willoughby,Howard Manns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429671111

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Australian English Reimagined by Louisa Willoughby,Howard Manns Pdf

Australian English is perhaps best known for its colourful slang, but the variety is much richer than slang alone. This collection provides a detailed account of Australian English by bringing together leading scholars of this English variety. These scholars provide a comprehensive overview of Australian English’s distinctive features and outline cutting-edge research into the variation and change of English in Australia. Organised thematically, this volume explores the ways in which Australian English differs from other varieties of English, as well as examining regional, social and stylistic variation within the variety. The volume first explores particular structural features where Australian English differentiates itself from other English varieties. There are chapters on phonetics and phonology, socio-phonetics, lexicon and discourse-pragmatics as these elements are core to understanding any variety of English, especially within the World Englishes paradigm. It then considers what are arguably the most salient aspects of variation within Australian English and finally focuses on historical, attitudinal and planning aspects of Australian English. This volume provides a thorough account of Australian English and its users as complex, diverse and worthy of study. Perhaps more importantly, this volume’s scholars provide a reimagining of Australian English and the paradigm through which future scholars may proceed.

Author : Felicity Lewis (ed.)
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760145903

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Explain That by Felicity Lewis (ed.) Pdf

Have you ever wondered if time travel is actually possible? Or where the Australian accent came from? Or what it feels like to have dementia? If you’re an inquisitive person who likes to understand how things came to be the way they are, this collection of thought-provoking explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has got you covered. Explain That answers some of the year’s – and life’s – most baffling questions. Thoroughly researched and eloquently set out by some of Australia’s finest journalists, it provides nourishment for curious minds and fun facts to share with friends and family. What do sharks want (and why do they bite)? How do you win an Oscar? Who thought up table manners? Funny, weird and insightful topics are inventively illustrated and embellished with diagrams, pictures and factoids. If you like to learn new things, if you enjoy trivia or you want to reflect on some of the big questions, this is the book for you. Absorbing, illuminating and always engaging, Explain That is for anyone who has ever asked how and why?

Author : Susan Boyer
Publisher : Boyer Educational Resources
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780958539531

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Understanding Everyday Australian by Susan Boyer Pdf

This book, along with its audio recording, has been designed to help intermediate students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday situations in Australia.

Author : Susan Boyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English language
ISBN : 1877074020

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Understanding Everyday Australian by Susan Boyer Pdf

Author : Susan Boyer
Publisher : Boyer Educational Resources
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780958539500

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Understanding Everyday Australian - Book One by Susan Boyer Pdf

'Understanding Everyday Australian - Book One' includes a student & teacher's book plus an audio resource.

Author : CARA. PENRY WILLIAMS
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : English language
ISBN : 1032089482

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Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English by CARA. PENRY WILLIAMS Pdf

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English 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). Focusing on one variation at time, it explores young speakers' language use and their evaluations of the same forms. The analysis of talk about talk uncovers ethnic, regional and social Others in social types and prevailing ideologies around Australian English essential for understanding Australian identity-making processes, as well as providing insights and methods relevant beyond this context. These discussions demonstrate that while the linguistic variations may occur in other varieties of English, they are understood through local conceptualisations, and often as uniquely Australian. This book harnesses the value and richness of discourse in explorations of the sociocultural life of language. The findings show that analysis attending to language ideologies and identities can help discover the micro-macro links needed in understanding social meanings. The volume explores a wide range of language features but also provides a deep contemplation of Australian English.

Author : Kel Richards
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781742241906

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The Story of Australian English by Kel Richards Pdf

The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.

Author : Cara Penry Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429671166

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Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English by Cara Penry Williams Pdf

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English 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). Focusing on one variation at time, it explores young speakers’ language use and their evaluations of the same forms. The analysis of talk about talk uncovers ethnic, regional and social Others in social types and prevailing ideologies around Australian English essential for understanding Australian identity-making processes, as well as providing insights and methods relevant beyond this context. These discussions demonstrate that while the linguistic variations may occur in other varieties of English, they are understood through local conceptualisations, and often as uniquely Australian. This book harnesses the value and richness of discourse in explorations of the sociocultural life of language. The findings show that analysis attending to language ideologies and identities can help discover the micro–macro links needed in understanding social meanings. The volume explores a wide range of language features but also provides a deep contemplation of Australian English.

Author : Pam Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139465212

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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage by Pam Peters Pdf

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well. This book is designed for everyone who writes and edits documents and non-fiction texts, for print or electronic delivery. Tertiary students and staff will get plenty of help from it, as well as professional editors who work with manuscripts of many different authors and commissions from multiple publishers.

Author : Luke Zimmermann
Publisher : English with Luke
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0980604729

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Aussie English & Culture by Luke Zimmermann Pdf

Are you going to Australia? Learn some Aussie ‘lingo’ (language) and culture. As a teacher of English as a Second Language, I have seen hundreds upon hundreds of people from all over the world and from all cultures grapple with the Aussie ways. They have all unwittingly contributed to this book. "I wish I'd had Aussie English and Culture by Luke Zimmerman when my Australian husband decided to pack up our little family and move back home to Australia! I'd grown up there, but left at 11 years of age. Returning as an adult, I suffered a year of culture shock, something that Aussie English and Culture might have relieved." Review by Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite

Author : Zita L Stephens
Publisher : Zita Louise Stephens
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Aussie Slang: The Cobber’s Guide to Understanding and Using It Correctly by Zita L Stephens Pdf

G'Day mate and welcome to the land of kangaroos, Vegemite, and some of the quirkiest languages you'll ever encounter – Australia! In this guide, we'll embark on an exhilarating journey through the sunburnt country's unique and vibrant linguistic landscape. From the iconic "G'day" to the laid-back banter of the outback, we'll unravel the secrets of Australian slang, helping you not just understand but confidently use this colourful language.

Author : Zita L Stephens
Publisher : Zita L Stephens
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9798876918482

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Aussie Slang by Zita L Stephens Pdf

G'Day mate and welcome to the land of kangaroos, Vegemite, and some of the quirkiest languages you'll ever encounter – Australia! In this guide, we'll embark on an exhilarating journey through the sunburnt country's unique and vibrant linguistic landscape. From the iconic "G'day" to the laid-back banter of the outback, we'll unravel the secrets of Australian slang, helping you not just understand but confidently use this colourful language.

Author : Ian G. Malcolm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503160

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Australian Aboriginal English by Ian G. Malcolm Pdf

The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regional and social variation, the circumstances of its development, its relationships to other varieties and its foundations in the history, conceptual predispositions and speech use conventions of its speakers. Much recent research on the dialect has been motivated by concern for the implications of its use in educational and legal contexts. The volume includes a review of such research and its implications as well as an annotated bibliography of significant contributions to study of the dialect and a number of sample texts. While Aboriginal English has been the subject of investigation in diverse places for some 60 years there has hitherto been no authoritative text which brings together the findings of this research and its implications. This volume should be of interest to scholars of English dialects as well as to persons interested in deepening their understanding of Indigenous Australian people and ways of providing more adequately for their needs in a society where there is a disconnect between their own dialect and that which prevails generally in the society of which they are a part.

Author : Afferbeck Lauder
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781921922329

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Strine by Afferbeck Lauder Pdf

How’s your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in ‘Waltzing Matilda’? There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken. Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauder’s groundbreaking studies of Australian speech, Let Stalk Strine and Nose Tone Unturned. Also included are Fraffly Well Spoken and Fraffly Suite, Lauder’s guides to the strangled dialect of the English upper class. Reproduced with Al Terego’s original illustrations, these classic books are full of mare chick momence. They are essential reading for air fridge Strines and new Strines alike—indeed, for anyone interested in our wire flife. Tiger look and start torgon Strine!