Contemporary Examples Flashcards
Monash Writing Guide
‘formal, objective, impersonal’
‘avoid using colloquialisms, idioms, slang’ as it is ‘often imprecise’ and can be ‘inaccessible to non-native English speakers
avoid using ‘personal pronouns ‘I’, ‘you’ and ‘we’
‘major purposes’ ‘to explain’ and ‘to persuade’
gives SAE high
suggests other language varieties are less appropriate in academic setti
Vic Emergency
July, Derrimut factory fire
‘you may see or smell smoke’
you at starts makes it clear who the report is addressing
may informs of possibilty without confirming, useful as…
‘keep the roads clear’
complies with standards of omitting subject, places end-focus on clear rather than readers
Gary Johns
August 2023, CPAC, Recognise a Better Way
live in a ‘stupor’ and if they ‘want a voice’, they should ‘learn English’
emblematic of the struggles AAE faces when trying to obtain overt presti
Renaming
Feb
Banks Reserve -> Warndoolier
City of Vincent, Mayor Alison Xamon
‘contribute to the preservation of Aboriginal culture and Noongar language’
demonstrate a ‘commitment to reconciliation.
Standardisation of Warndoolier
increasing recognition and value of AbE
ongoing reconciliation.
Korean ethnolect
replacing /f/ with /p/, /v/ with /b/, /θ/ with /s/, and /ð/ with /d/
Heartbreak high
April
‘deadly’, ‘yarn’
empowers AAE by not presenting as incorrect, but as an unremarkable part of everyday language
gives agency to first nations people and their language as central part of Aus identity
egalitarianism, reconciliation
Flu the boot
May
‘it can make some of us mob very sick’
mob has denotations of family, ‘us’ addresses any first nations people, fosters sense of community, calls upon sense of responsibility
‘yarn to your health worker’
yarn has denotations of a casual convo
less intimidating
ADF
Nov 2023
‘unmanned aerial vehicle’ -> ‘uncrewed’
‘man-hours’ -> ‘staff hours’
avoids sexist language, fostering inclusive working environment
indicates gradual increase of wokeism, advocates for equal treatment of marginalised groups
Antisemitism rally
October 9th, 2023 - ‘Fuck the Jews’ after Hamas led attacks
Scomo ‘un-Australian’
Feb 2024
NAIN ‘push back the hate, mate’
mate - laid-back opposes, solidarity, mateship to unite
leb
Linguist James Walker says that ethnolects are formed as a result of immigrant parents and grandparents passing on speech patterns.
Heba bou Orm
‘hearing Asians’
‘a lot of different ethnic backgrounds adopt’
‘more than just a way of speaking’
‘expression of identity’
leb 2.0
‘doesnt sound classy… sophisticated’ and it sounds ‘less intelligent’, associated with a ‘street identity’
Mahmoud Ismail
‘trying to diversify media’
not letting people ‘be themselves’
Journalist S. Jordan
‘think only one type of accent is Australian’
Nariyah
nov
My mob are the Gunaikurnai people
’out bush’
spinal cord inflammation
’couldnt leave naarm’
’It’s deadly to know that no matter what happens to me I’ll always be a proud Gunaikurnai woman’
stabbing at church
April
NSW Premier Chris Minns “terrorist incident’
Albo ‘no place for violence in our community’
Formal, sombre language reflects respect and gravitas of situation
abstract noun ‘community’, possessive pronoun ‘our’, solidarity, harmony
albo says bloody
nov
Albo visits china
tarrifs on wine exports to china lifted
uses sae given political tensions ‘its bloody good wine’
informal adjective phrase ‘bloody good’ highlights albo’s larrikin identity, capturing the quintessential Australian spirit of irreverance and laid-back attitudes even in formal situations
melanie bracewell
Sep 2023
dropped mic pack during interview with albo
says ‘fuck’
while commented on, did not prompt negative reponse but instead laughter
albo jokes that ‘if we denied citizenship to people who said that word, we’d really struggle’
laid-back
