An Australian Dictionary For North Americans
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An Australian Dictionary For North Americans
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Author : Noel Funge
language : en
Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Release Date : 2000
An Australian Dictionary For North Americans written by Noel Funge and has been published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Babadada Black And White American English Australian English Pictorial Dictionary Visual Dictionary
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Author : Babadada GmbH
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-09-13
Babadada Black And White American English Australian English Pictorial Dictionary Visual Dictionary written by Babadada GmbH and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-13 with Study Aids categories.
BABADADA dictionaries are visual language education: Simple learning takes center stage. In a BABADADA dictionary images and language merge into a unit that is easy to learn and remember. Each book contains over 1000 black-and-white illustrations. The goal is to learn the basics of a language much faster and with more fun than possible with a complicated text dictionary. This book is based on the very successful online picture dictionary BABADADA.COM, which offers easy language entry for countless language combinations - Used by thousands of people and approved by well-known institutions. The languages used in this book are also called as follows: Amerikanisches Englisch, anglais américain, Inglés americano, US Inglês
Australian Slang
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Author : David Tuffley
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-05-22
Australian Slang written by David Tuffley and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Reference categories.
Aussie Slang is a richly-textured, often ribald world of understatement and laconic humour. This guide aims to do three things; (a) to help the traveller decipher what they hear around them in everyday Australian life, (b) give the causal reader some insight into informal Australian culture, and (c) make a record of some old Australian expressions that are slipping into disuse now that English has become a global language. Readers will recognize both British and American terms in this list. Australian English has absorbed much from these two great languages. For depth of knowledge of their own language, no-body beats the British. Its their language after all. A thousand years in the making, the English language is embedded deep in the DNA of the British. No-one uses their language more skilfully than they do. On the other hand, American English has a creative power that recognizes no boundaries. Americans have taken a very good all-purpose language and extended it in all kinds of directions with new words describing the world as it is today. They do not generally cling to old forms out of respect for tradition. As Winston Churchill observed, Britain and America … two great nations divided by the same language. Australian English sits comfortably in the space between the two. Australian English began in the early days of settlement as English English with a healthy dash of Celtic influence from the many Scots, Irish and Welsh settlers who came to Australia. Large numbers of German settlers also came in the 1800's,and their influence on the language is also clearly evident. For over a hundred years, Australia developed in splendid isolation its unique blend of English, tempered by the hardships of heat and cold, deluge and drought, bushfires and cyclones. The harsh environment united people in a common struggle to survive. People helped each other. Strong communitarian loyalties were engendered. It is from this that the egalitarian character of Australia evolved. There is a strong emphasis on building a feeling of solidarity with others. Strangers will call each other "mate" or "luv" in a tone of voice ordinarily reserved for close friends and family in other parts of the world. Everyone was from somewhere else, and no-one was better than anyone else. A strong anti-authoritarian attitude became deeply embedded in Australian English. This was mainly directed towards their British overlords who still ran the country as a profitable colony. The Australian sense of humour is generally understated, delivered with a straight-face, and is often self-deprecating in nature. No-one wants to appear to be “up themselves”. Harsh or otherwise adverse conditions had to be met without complaint, so when discussing such conditions, it was necessary to do so with laconic, understated humour. Anyone not doing so was deemed a “whinger” (win-jer).Following World War II the American influence came increasingly to influence Australian culture and therefore the language. No-one is better at selling their popular culture to the world than the United States of America. Their pop culture is a beguiling instrument of foreign policy, so pervasive and persuasive it is. Young Australians enthusiastically embraced American culture, and since the 1940's the old established British language and customs have become blended with the American. If Australian English has a remarkable quality, it is the absence of regional dialects. It is spoken with relative uniformity across the entire nation. Brisbane on the East coast is a 4,300 kilometre (2,700 mile) drive from Perth on the West coast, yet there is little discernible linguistic difference between the two places compared with the difference, for example between Boston and San Francisco in the US. Nowhere else in the world do we see such linguistic uniformity across large distances.
Lexicography Reference Works Across Time Space And Languages
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Author : R. R. K. Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2003
Lexicography Reference Works Across Time Space And Languages written by R. R. K. Hartmann and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The History Of Lexicography
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Author : R. R. K. Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1986-01-01
The History Of Lexicography written by R. R. K. Hartmann and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most of the lexicographical traditions in the world, some tracing them right back to their beginnings. The programme was divided into eight sessions, with the following concentrations of topics: (1) three classical traditions, (2) the early history of European lexicography, (3) the beginnings of English lexicography, (4) further aspects of English lexicography, (5) the background of diverse national developments, (6) specific features of national developments, (7) pioneers of three genres, (8) recent trends in the English dictionary.
The Europeans In Australia
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Author : Alan Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2016-07-01
The Europeans In Australia written by Alan Atkinson and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with History categories.
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan Atkinson The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century ‘communications revolution’ Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a ‘global’ world. This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Throughout the trilogy Atkinson traces subtle and sudden shifts of ‘common imagination’ by analysing the lives of both powerful and ordinary Australians. He sets out the ideas and the imagery that moved and marked the people. This book, like all his work, is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written ‘from the inside’, it is – as he says – history ‘caught up with the flesh and memory it describes’. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history,The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark’s A History of Australia.
Webster S New International Dictionary Of The English Language
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Author : William Allan Neilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
Webster S New International Dictionary Of The English Language written by William Allan Neilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with English language categories.
Analytical And Classified Catalogue Of The Library Of The Parliament Of Queensland
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Author : Denis O'Donovan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Analytical And Classified Catalogue Of The Library Of The Parliament Of Queensland written by Denis O'Donovan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Dictionary catalogs categories.
The Eponym Dictionary Of Birds
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Author : Bo Beolens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-28
The Eponym Dictionary Of Birds written by Bo Beolens and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with Nature categories.
A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds. Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. These entries vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs, depending on the availability of information or the importance of the individual's legacy. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research. Ornithologists will find this an invaluable reference, especially to sort out birds named after people with identical surnames or in situations where only a person's forenames are used. But all birders will find much of interest in this fascinating dictionary, an ebook to dip into time and time again whenever their curiosity is aroused.
The New Zealand Dictionary
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Author : E. Orsman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-10-15
The New Zealand Dictionary written by E. Orsman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-15 with categories.
The ready acceptance of the first edition and the up-dating of parts of the research database, plus generous comments and suggestions for improvement allowed the prompt completion of the second edition of this unique dictionary only 15 months after the release of the first. This is now available in a sewn limp-covered edition. The jacketted Library Edition is now out of print. This is the first comprehensive dictionary of distinctive New Zealand English which is one of the youngest regional dialects of English but equal in status with such older regional dialects as those of Britain, North America or Australia. It is obvious that its differences from these other varieties of English must be much fewer than the similarities. However, dialect study tends to focus not on the vast common ground but rather on the distinctive differences in the broad area of spelling, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Most readers rely on the differences in the last two - pronunciation and vocabulary - to indicate the existence of a really distinctive New Zealand dialect. In this respect the special contribution of loanwords from Maori is most noticeable. The dictionary includes the most frequently used words and phrases which are in some way distinctively, and often exclusively, part of the spoken or written language of English-speaking New Zealanders. The dictionary makes the further obvious point that New Zealand English is a national language, one of two recognised by New Zealanders as their own.