The Penguin Book of Australian Slang
Author | : Lenie Johansen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Australianisms |
ISBN | : 9781854714282 |
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Author | : Lenie Johansen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Australianisms |
ISBN | : 9781854714282 |
Author | : Lenie Johansen |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : Australianisms |
ISBN | : 9780140255737 |
The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.
Author | : Sarah Dawson |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1999-08-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1742286844 |
What Australian say – and what they really mean. Australia has given the world thousands of colouful words and expressions. From the back of Bourke to the rough end of the pineapple, it's all here. Aussie Slang is the phrase book for visitors to Oz. It's ideal reading for local blokes and sheilas, too.
Author | : Gordon Kerr |
Publisher | : Penguin Australia |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Australianisms |
ISBN | : 9780143009115 |
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas. Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one- G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly. He's about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. The drongo'll get the spear if he doesn't pull his socks up.
Author | : John Thompson |
Publisher | : Harmondworth, Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Australian poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anon |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780734311559 |
Author | : Paul Skandera |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110197863 |
The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values. The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers. The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.
Author | : Annamarie Jagose |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501725831 |
The field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way of looking at lesbian representability. Jagose argues that the theoretical preoccupation with metaphors of visibility is part of the problem it attempts to remedy. In her account, the regulatory difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality relies less on codes of visual recognition than on a cultural adherence to the force of first order, second order sexual sequence. As Jagose points out, sequence does not simply specify what comes before and what comes after; it also implies precedence: what comes first and what comes second. Jagose reads canonical novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Daphne du Maurier, drawing upon their elaboration of sexual sequence. In these innovative readings, tropes such as first and second, origin and outcome, and heterosexuality and homosexuality are shown to reinforce heterosexual precedence. Inconsequence intervenes in current debates in lesbian historiography, taking as its pivotal moment the fin-de-siècle phenomenon of the sexological codification of sexual taxonomies and concluding with a reading of a post-Kinsey pulp sexological text. Throughout, Jagose reminds us that categories of sexual registration are always back-formations, secondary, and belated, not only for those who identify as lesbian but also for all sexual subjects.
Author | : Phillip Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Australian wit and humor |
ISBN | : 9780140290585 |
The traditional Aussie jokes told in pubs and cabs now compete with global jokes. It's Dad 'n' Dave versus Monica Lewinsky.
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 1150 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : 9780415259385 |
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