Australian English - The National Language
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Australian English - The National Language

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Australian English - The National Language

About this book

Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public. What is it like? How has English changed by being transplanted to other parts of the world? Does the rise of AusE and other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language? Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which Australian English has developed.

This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive and integrative approach that anchors English in the entire 'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from national status.

The study is of interest for specialists of English and Australian Studies as well as a range of other disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110181944
eBook ISBN
9783110904871
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of illustrations
  3. Notational conventions
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Australia’s language habitat
  6. 1.1 Demographic, cultural and linguistic diversity
  7. 1.2 Past approaches to Australia’s many voices
  8. 1.3 A unified approach to Australia’s many voices
  9. 1.4 A coherent, inclusive account of Australia’s languages
  10. Chapter 2 The demography of Australia’s language habitat
  11. 2.1 Demography and the demography of Australia
  12. 2.2 The growth of Australia's population
  13. 2.3 The composition of the population
  14. 2.4 A profile of selected communities
  15. 2.5 Conclusion
  16. Chapter 3 Australian English: The national language
  17. 3.1 Attitudes to English: From colonial cringe to epicentre
  18. 3.2 The British English heritage in mAusE
  19. 3.3 English in Australia in contact
  20. 3.4 Internal stratification of mAusE
  21. 3.5 Standard mAusE and Australia’s national language
  22. 3.6 A social and linguistic history of mAusE
  23. 3.7 The language repertoire of the speech community of mAusE
  24. Chapter 4 An epi-centre in the Asia-Pacific region
  25. References
  26. Name Index
  27. Subject Index