Applied LinguisticsLanguage PolicyLanguage DocumentationMultilingualismStandard Australian EnglishGlobal EnglishScholarly DocumentationLingua FrancaLanguage LocalisationColloquial LanguageHistorical LinguisticsEnglish Language LearningLexicographySemantic ChangeLanguage StudiesConcept Australian EnglishLinguistics
The author traces the development of the concept Australian English from the 1940s to the present time, noting a radical change in both public and individual acceptance of it. He briefly surveys the extent of the scholarly documentation of Australian English in dictionaries and style manuals, and addresses the question of Australianness in a range of text types and registers.