English in Australia / edited by David Blair, Peter Collins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ENGLISH IN AUSTRALIA; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Language and identity in Australia; The changing face of Australian English vowels; Variation and change in Australian English Consonants: Reduction of /t/; The vocalisation of dark l in Australian English; Hypocoristics of place-names in Australian English; Syntactic features and norms in Australian English; Australian English and indigenous voices; Australian English -- an identity crisis; Corpus evidence on Australian style and usage; Torres Strait English; Aboriginal English: Adopted code of a surviving culture.

This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on variation within the dialect that include Aboriginal and ethnic varieties as well as regional and generational differences with a focus on questions of Australian identity and intercultural relations. With selected contributions by Australia's leading linguists this volume records the most recent dev.

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