Title The default country : a lexical cartography of twentieth-century Australia / J.M. Arthur

Published Sydney : UNSW Press, 2003 Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2003 ©2003

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Description viii, 216 pages ; 24 cm regular print Contents Introduction -- 1. Double vision: Discovering the default -- 2. Writing directions -- 3. Writing a colonial calendar -- 4. Words of knowledge -- 5. Nomen est omen -- 6. A lexicon of audit -- 7. Transforming vocabularies -- 8. A dictionary of keys and locks -- 9. Communications from a field of battle -- 10. Three horsemen -- 11. Quoll vadis -- 12. King Midas' dictionary -- Afterword: Living a language Summary How does language affect people's response to the land they love? J.M. Arthur makes "word maps" of Australia, and through the process of lexical cartography explores the relationship between language and landscape Analysis Land resources English language Cultural identity Australian English Australian literature Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library Signed by author 1 copy. ANU Subject English language -- Australia -- Lexicography. Australianisms. Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century. Geography -- Terminology. English language -- Australia. English language -- Dialects -- Australia. English language -- Variation -- Australia. Genre/Form History. LC no. 2003464238 ISBN 0868405426 :

Other Titles Lexical cartography of 20th century Australia Lexical cartography of twentieth-century Australia Default country : a lexical cartography of 20th century Australia

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