The Story of Australian English by Kel Richards PAPERBACK 9781742232317

Name: The Story of Australian English by Kel Richards PAPERBACK 9781742232317
Brand: Kel Richards

Kel Richards

The Story of Australian English\nby Kel Richards\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kel Richards\nTitle: The Story of Australian English\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Language and Linguistics\nPublisher: NewSouth Publishing\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781742232317\nISBN-10: 1742232310\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of \u2018Englishes\u2019. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant prog.