The Languages and Linguistics of Australia

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia
Author: Harold Koch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110279770

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.

Australian Languages

Australian Languages
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2002-11-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521473780

Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.

Speaking Our Language

Speaking Our Language
Author: Bruce Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

For the first time the story of Australian English is about to be told in full. It is written for people who want to know where Australian English came from, what the forces were that moulded it, why it takes its present form, and where it is going. Australian author and content.

The Story of Australian English

The Story of Australian English
Author: Kel Richards
Publisher: NewSouth
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1742241905

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.

Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English
Author: Ian G. Malcolm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501503162

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.

Australia's Many Voices

Australia's Many Voices
Author: Gerhard Leitner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783110181944

Develops a comprehensive, descriptive, and sociohistorical view of mainstream Australian English and of the social processes that have made it possible for it to become the national language of Australia reaching out into the Asia-Pacific region.

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages
Author: Ilana Mushin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902720571X

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of different types, ranging from the polysynthetic languages of Arnhem Land and the Kimberley to the classical types represented by Walpiri. Topics covered include the pragmatics of information exchange, the interaction of noun class marking with polarity and referentiality, the effects of specificity on argument indexing, the discourse uses of the ergative case, the contribution of pronouns to NP reference, the interaction of tense and aspect clitics with information structure, clause-initial position, and discourse and grammar in Australian languages. The volume will appeal to scholars interested in discourse, typology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Australian English Reimagined

Australian English Reimagined
Author: Louisa Willoughby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0429671113

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.

English in Australia

English in Australia
Author: David Blair
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027248848

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.

Australian Languages

Australian Languages
Author: Claire Bowern
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588115126

This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages 'different' in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung 'Pama-Nyungan' language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method. Contributions by: B. Alpher; B. Baker; C. Bowern; C. Bowern & H. Koch; G. Breen; L. Campbell; I. Green & R. Nordlinger; L. Hercus & P. Austin; H. Koch; P. McConvell & M. Laughren; L. Miceli; G. O'Grady & K. L. Hale; J. Simpson & L. Hercus.