"Australian English is perhaps best known for its colourful slang, but the variety is much richer than slang alone.
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English Pages 259 Year 2020
Table of contents :
1. Introducing Australian EnglishLouisa Willoughby and Howard MannsPart 1: Features of Australian English2. Phonetics and Phonology of Australian EnglishFelicity Cox3. Tense, Aspect and Modality in Australian EnglishPeter Collins and Xinyue Yao4. Negation in Australian English: from bugger all to no worriesIsabelle Burke5. Reimagining Discourse-pragmatic Features of Australian EnglishesCeleste Rodriguez Louro6. The Lexicon of Australian EnglishHoward MannsPart 2: Internal Variation in Australian English7. Sociophonetics of Australian EnglishDebbie Loakes8. Lexical and Morphosyntactic Variation in Australian EnglishLee Murray and Howard Manns9. Aboriginal English(es)Greg Dickson10. Ethnolectal Variability in Australian EnglishJoshua ClothierPart 3: Historical Development of Australian English11. History of Australian EnglishKate Burridge12. American Influences on Australian EnglishMinna Korhonen13. Codification of Australian EnglishPam Peters14. Attitudes to Australian EnglishLouisa Willoughby15. The Australian National CorpusSimon Musgrave and Michael Haugh