1st Edition
Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English
By Cara Penry Williams
Copyright 2020
208 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society. Utilising folklinguistic accounts, it uncovers everyday understandings of contemporary Australian English through variations across linguistic systems (sounds, words, discourse and grammar). Focusing on one variation at time, it explores... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Conceptualising social meaning
3. Studying social meaning via folklinguistics
4. Phonetic and phonological variation
5. Lexical variation
6. Discourse and grammatical variation
7. Social types and language ideologies
Biography
Cara Penry Williams has a master’s degree in applied linguistics and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne. After many years of teaching and researching at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, she is now a Lecturer in English Language at University of Derby in the UK and an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University.
