Australian Englishes
The three different Australian English Accent types.
What are broad, general and cultivated.
Language that displays emotions.
What is emotive?
"Mate, I've got a beauty of a ute just chugging along out front if you wanna have a gander?
What is slang?
What is jargon?
Informal language that is typically restricted to one group (friends, age group, nationality etc) such as "no worries" and "servo".,
What is slang?
A vowel sound that changes in the middle of the sound, such as "price" - "Prioce"
What are diphthongs?
Language that informs.
What is referential?
What is Jargon?
Language that is straightforward and used by powerful people to maintain control.
What is directness?
Factors that influence language such as age, nationality, social status, gender, sexuality, and education.
What are demographics?
What are diminutives?
Language that instructs or commands.
What is conative?
"It is regrettable that the train doors were locked when the fire started"
What is a passive sentence?
A sentence where the object and action come before the subject.
What is passive voice?
What is informal language?
When an /r/ sound does not appear a the end of a syllable or before a consonant.
What is non-rhotic?
Language that is expressing the aesthetic.
What is poetic?
"Exam: paper, pencil, questions, marking, grade"
What is semantic domain?
An meaning that is not stated directly by the writer or speaker.
What is implied purpose?
Style of language used when you want to seem professional, knowledgeable and educated?
What is formal language?
Varieties of English spoken by some First Nations Australians.
What are Aboriginal Australian Englishes?
Language that is designed for social interaction.
What is phatic?
"The Right Honourable Minister for Tourism will now take the floor"
What is an honourific?
The level of closeness between people, often influenced by age, nationality, culture, gender, sexuality, social class etc.
What is social distance?
What is semantic domain?