Teil 1 Australian English - The National Language

Gerhard Leitner

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2004

Teil 1 Australian English - The National Language

Gerhard Leitner

Part of the multi-volume work Australia's Many Voices

Volume 90 in the series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110904871

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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.

Author / Editor information

Gerhard Leitner is Professor of English at the Free University, Berlin, Germany.

Reviews

"The breadth of information Leitner brings together in this series makes it a perfect ready-reference and springboard for casual enthusiast and scholars of Australian languagues alike."
Louisa Willoughby in: Linguist List 16.955

"One can only commend the book's underlying aim, to provide a unified description of Australian English, within a contemporary linguistic paradigm. It brings light sources that will be of interest to future researchers and provides a map of that very large geographical and sociolinguistic landscape."
Pam Peters in: Journal of English Linguistics 6/2005

"Leitner is not the first to conceive the idea of relating language developments with the socio-political history of the continent, but he has done it more extensively than earlier writers like Jupp, Ozolins, Clyne and Mitchell. And he is the first to explore the possibility of treating all the major questions within a single overarching concept. And that makes history!"
Arthur Delbridge in Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, 19, 2005

"These volumes really are now the standard reference work on the Australian language habitat, past and present; every library should have copies."
Scott F. Kiesling in: World Englishes

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Notational conventions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1: Australia’s language habitat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2: The demography of Australia’s language habitat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 3: Australian English: The national language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 4: An epi-centre in the Asia-Pacific region Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Sociolinguists; Scholars; Academic Libraries; Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 396
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Tables: 14
- Other: 1 Kte
Keywords: Englisch; Australien; Soziolinguistik

eBook

Published: February 6, 2013
ISBN: 9783110904871

Hardcover

Published: July 26, 2004
ISBN: 9783110181944