Australian English - The National Language (Contributions to by Gerhard Leitner

By Gerhard Leitner

Australia's English is on the centre of curiosity in English and Australian experiences. it really is imperative to an figuring out of the advance of English world-wide. This booklet develops a complete, descriptive, and sociohistorical view of mainstream Australian English and of the social tactics that experience made it attainable for it to turn into the nationwide language of Australia attaining out into the Asia-Pacific quarter. This learn is either one of curiosity for experts from a number of language and coverage disciplines, and for non-specialists with out history in linguistics. either will locate its discursive, non-technical kind appealing.

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