Australian English Reimagined - Structure, Features and Developments

Summary

Australian English is best known for its colourful slang. This collection provides a much richer account by bringing together leading scholars of this English variety. They provide a comprehensive overview of Australian English’s distinctive features and outline cutting edge research into variation and change of English in Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Louisa Manns Willoughby
• Assisted by: Howard Manns (Editor), Manns Howard (Editor), Louisa Willoughby (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2019
• EAN: 9780367029395
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02939-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Englishes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Australian English, Language: history & general works, Phonetics, phonology, Language teaching theory and methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language: history and general works, Semantics & pragmatics, Applied linguistics for ELT