Leitner, Australia's Many Voices (2004)

[Julia Ulrich]

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New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter

Gerhard Leitner
AUSTRALIA'S MANY VOICES
Australian English - The National Language

2004. xv, 395 pages. Cloth.
EUR 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00
ISBN 3-11-018194-0
(Contributions to the Sociology of Language 90.1)

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110181940-1&l=E

Date of Publication: July 2004

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, 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.


TO BE PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2004

Gerhard Leitner
AUSTRALIA'S MANY VOICES
Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education

2004. Approx. xiv, 346 pages. Cloth.
Approx. EUR 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00
ISBN 3-11-018195-9
(Contributions to the Sociology of Language 90.2)



Australia's Englishes, its indigenous, migrant and contact lan-guages
and wide-ranging language policies are well-known. Based on extensive
research, Census and other data, this book develops a comprehensive and
integrative approach to Australia's language habitat and the
transformation of the indigenous habitats since colonization. Linking
social history, linguistic development and political and educational
perspectives of language policy and planning, it provides a succinct
overview of this segment of Australia's many voices and shows how it
relates to Australian English, the national language.


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