Language in AustraliaSuzanne Romaine Language in Australia provides a wide-ranging account of the present linguistic situation in Australia, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. The focus is mainly descriptive, and the chapters aim to provide a comprehensive overview and summary of what is known about Australia's languages as well as a guide to current areas of research interest. Throughout the volume, the contributors pay special attention to issues arising from the socio-historical situation in which Australia's languages and language varieties coexist. The volume covers both indigenous and non-indigenous languages, and contains a section specifically on 'community' languages, and also one on public policy and social issues relating to English. No other book offers such a broad survey of the language situation in Australia. Linguists as well as non-linguists will find in this volume, which is a companion to Language in the USA and Language in the British Isles, a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia. |
Contents
Overview of indigenous languages of Australia | 27 |
social dialects in a | 49 |
Aboriginal English an overview IAN G MALCOLM | 67 |
Communicative strategies in Aboriginal English | 84 |
Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim | 94 |
an overview of research into language | 104 |
Tables | 108 |
A sketch of Kalaw Kawaw Ya KEVIN FORD AND | 118 |
perceptions of and attitudes towards | 228 |
structures and use | 241 |
Modern Greek in Australia ANASTASIOS TAMIS | 249 |
A survey of regional usage in the lexicon of Australian | 287 |
migrants and language | 304 |
Gender differences in Australian English | 318 |
migrant | 329 |
Social class differences in the lexicon DAVID CORSON | 349 |
a step towards language | 143 |
Overview of the pidgin and creole languages of | 159 |
A sketch of the structure of Kriol JOHN SANDEFUR | 204 |
Overview of immigrant or community | 215 |
some sociolinguistic revelations | 363 |
References | 373 |
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Aboriginal English Aboriginal languages adult areas attitudes Australian English Australian languages Australian National University Bettoni bilingual education Canberra cent clause clitic Clyne code-switching community languages context creolisation cultural Delbridge dialect domain Dutch European example factors first-generation forms functions gender German Government grammatical Greek immigrants informants Italian Kala Lagaw Ya Kanaka English Kriol language contact language maintenance language policy language shift languages in Australia lexical transfers locative major marker Melbourne migrant languages multicultural multilingual native speakers Northern Territory noun patterns Pauwels person phonological Pidgin English pidgins and creoles plain English plural PR PF programmes pronouns Queensland Queensland Kanaka English recognised regional Sandefur schools Second Language semantic transfer sentences Serbian/Croatian Serbo-Croatian situation social group sociolects sociolinguistic speak speech community spoken Standard Australian English structure suffix Sydney syntactic traditional usage variation varieties verb verification surveys Victoria vocabulary volume vowels Warlpiri Wik languages Wollongong