15.2875, Books: Socioling/Psycholing/Historical Ling: Leitner

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Date: 05-Oct-2004
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Australia's Many Voices: Leitner

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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:07:13
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Australia's Many Voices: Leitner

Title: Australia's Many Voices
Subtitle: Australian English - The National Language
Series Title: Contributions to the Sociology of Language

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
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Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110181940-1&l=E

Author: Gerhard Leitner, Free University, Berlin

Hardback: ISBN: 3110181940 Pages: xiii, 396 Price: Europe EURO 98.00

Abstract:

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 Australian English 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," (to be published
October 2004) 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.

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

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Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
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Subject Language(s): English (Language Code: ENG)

Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)

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