Lang U4Aos1 Cue cards Flashcards
10 ways aboriginal Australians made English their own.
‘Auntie’+ ‘uncle’ for respect rather than relation.
‘reciprocal address’ ‘Granny’ goes both ways.
‘uninverted questions’ ‘That’s your auntie?’
As an indigenous Australian, Language reflects a culturally salient mutual performance of identity and shared group solidarity.
‘Aboriginal English has its own structure, rules and the same potential as other linguistic varieties’
Yeah,nah : Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more about it.
-burridge
‘Budgie smuglers’
‘fair suck of the Siberian sand shoe’
‘flat out like a lizard drinking’
Australian language use/ slang performs a very culturally salient communicative purpose, central to Australian identity.
‘our Australian slang has been a lighting rod for pride, prejudice and confusion’
‘slang is different things to different people’
Aright you spunkrats, here’s where all our Aussie summertime language came from.
‘Quarantinis in locky d’
‘Barbies’
‘snag, swag or esky’
‘reckons’
‘a sandwich short of a picnic’
The use of Australian language is very dynamic and ever evolving.
‘swag is one of those convict era survivors’
Broad or posh, we still sound uniquely Australian. Where did our accent come from?
Lexically ‘Cobber’ ‘bloody.
Accents=broad,general, cultivated.
The Australian variety is widely used and understood as being Australian in nature, distinguishable from other varieties (BE amE)
‘Australian English is…ever evolving’
‘children strove to sound less like their parents’
‘we haven’t seen this type of diversity before’.
