Language
Articles
- A Critical Review of Writings on The Vocabulary of Australian English
It is more than sixty years since Morris's Austral English was published, yet this, deficient in many respects and dated as it is, remains the…
1 December 1963 - ‘Bushranger’ and ‘Croppy’ : A Footnote to Convict Jargon and Euphemism
In a recent study of convict jargon in this journal emphasis is placed on the use of convict terms outside convict circles, particularly in the…
1 June 1966 - Early Evidence for ‘Bushranger’ and ‘Croppy’
Interest shown by historians and other scholars in the recording of the Australian vocabulary is welcome, particularly if they are able to indicate sources which…
1 December 1966 - The Language of Australian Literature
To the linguist, Australian English is a dialect: that is, a regional variety of English with its own peculiarities of pronunciation vocabulary and syntax. These…
1 June 1967 - Further Evidence in the Early Use of ‘bushranger’
The early use of bushranger in Australia has occasioned debate. The word is obviously closely linked with the verb, to range, and this note…
1 May 1972 - Gaeldom and the Western District
Scotland's Gaelic-speakers are not very numerous--according to the latest publication of the Gaelic Television Committee they number about 82,000, all of them bi-lingual--but they are…
1 October 1993 - Evoking Empathy: Structures of Language and Feeling in Robert Gray’s Poetry
At the heart of Robert Gray's poetic practices and of his comments on the writing of poetry lies a concern with the nature and functions…
1 October 1990 - Ladies and Gentlemen? Language, Body and Identity in The Aunt’s Story and The Twyborn Affair
In The Aunt's Story (1948) and The Twyborn Affair (1979), generally considered White's first and last great novel respectively, the themes of gendered settler identity…
1 October 2013 - Review of The Default Country: A Lexical Cartography of Twentieth Century Australia, by J.M. Arthur
It must have been a satisfying find. From the Brigalow Farm Management Handbook (1976) Jay Arthur reports the observation that 'generally it takes two seasons…
1 October 2003 - Judith Wright’s Linguistic Philosophy – ‘It’s the Word that’s Strange’
Walker explores the importance of linguistic theory to Judith Wright's understanding of language and its use in poetry.
1 May 1977 - The Language of Music: Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach
All Garner's novels and stories present female experience as a discourse of the possible rather than a narrative of simple conflict although this possibility always…
1 October 1990
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- W. S. Ramson
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- Randolph Stow
- John Stephens
- Shirley Walker