English in Australia
Edited by David Blair and Peter Collins
[Varieties of English Around the World, G26] 2001. vi, 366 pp.
David Blair
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Blair plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2001 Language and identity in Australia English in Australia, Blair, David and Peter Collins (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
1988 The Australian corpus project: Findings on the distribution of some functional variants in the Australian press Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:1, pp. 22–33 | Article
The functional variants of International English are often differently distributed in the different regional standards. With evidence from the corpus of Australian English, this has already been shown for lexical variants such as will/shall, maybe/perhaps etc. In this paper evidence from the… read more
1980 Review of Wilkes (1978): A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms English World-Wide 1:1, pp. 147–149 | Review