Australia's Many Voices

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ISBN: 9783110181944 | 3110181940
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Copyright: 9/1/2004

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Australia's English is at the centre of interest in English and Australian Studies. It is indispensable to an understanding of the development of English world-wide. This book 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. This study is both of interest for specialists from a range of language and policy disciplines, and for non-specialists with no background in linguistics. Both will find its discursive, non-technical style appealing.

Acknowledgements

vii

List of illustrations

Notational conventions

xii

Introduction

(2)

Chapter 1 Australia's language habitat

(42)

1.1 Demographic, cultural and linguistic diversity

(3)

1.2 Past approaches to Australia's many voices

(6)

1.3 A unified approach to Australia's many voices

(28)

1.3.1 Language, languages and language performance

(6)

1.3.2 Changing the habitat of languages

(15)

1.3.3 The social dimension

(6)

1.4 A coherent, inclusive account of Australia's languages

(4)

Chapter 2 The demography of Australia's language habitat

(42)

2.1 Demography and the demography of Australia

(5)

2.2 The growth of Australia's population

(9)

2.3 The composition of the population

(7)

2.4 A profile of selected communities

(18)

2.4.1 Indigenous Australians

(4)

2.4.2 British settlers, including Celtic settlers

(7)

2.4.3 Migrants from continental Europe and Asia

(6)

2.5 Conclusion

(2)

Chapter 3 Australian English: The national language

(251)

3.1 Attitudes to English: From colonial cringe to epicentre

(16)

3.1.1 Dimensions of attitudes to language

(1)

3.1.2 Views from without on the English in Australia

(2)

3.1.3 Views from within and from the Mother Country

(12)

3.2 The British English heritage in mAusE

106

(43)

3.2.1 The accent

107

(10)

3.2.2 The dialect

117

(32)

3.3 English in Australia in contact

149

(71)

3.3.1 Contact with the indigenous language habitat

151

(26)

3.3.2 Contact with migrant languages other than English

177

(14)

3.3.3 Contact with other varieties of English

191

(29)

3.4 Internal stratification of mAusE

220

(43)

3.4.1 Variable patterns in the accent

221

(17)

3.4.2 From the non-standard to the standard dialect

238

(10)

3.4.3 A note on ethnicity

248

(1)

3.4.4 Regional variation

249

(14)

3.5 Standard mAusE and Australia's national language

263

(48)

3.5.1 The Australian Broadcasting Commission

265

(17)

3.5.2 The Macquarie dictionary project

282

(7)

3.5.3 Government and other codifiers

289

(3)

3.5.4 Usage guides, especially newspaper guides

292

(5)

3.5.5 The Style Council

297

(1)

3.5.6 Non-discriminatory language and plain English

298

(11)

3.5.7 The English language industry

309

(2)

3.6 A social and linguistic history of mAusE

311

(25)

3.6.1 The formation of the accents

312

(17)

3.6.2 The origin of stratification of the dialect

329

(6)

3.6.3 Recent change

335

(1)

3.7 The language repertoire of the speech community of mAusE

336

(2)

Chapter 4 An epi-centre in the Asia-Pacific region

338

(9)

References

347

(35)

Name Index

382

(7)

Subject Index

389

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Australia's Many Voices

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