Author: Baker, Sidney J.
Title: The Australian Language.
Description: Melbourne Sun Papernac / Sun Books, 1981. Paperback trade, very good condition, small hole top corner tip front free flyleaf, small crease top part of few initial pages (during binding), bottom edge lightly rubbed, minor edgewear. 517 pp. Subtitle: An Examination of the English Language and English Speech As is Used in Australia, from Convict Days to the Present, with Special Reference to the Growth of Indigenous Idiom and Its Use by Australian Writers. The 22 chapters are: The new language; The soil; The bush; The road; The city yesterday; The underworld; Australia at war; The vulgarism; The city today; Pastimes and pleasures; People and places; The young; fauna and flora; Aborigines and pidgin English; Local jargon; Special forms of slang; New worlds; Standard Australianisms; Oversea[s] influences; Our idiom in literature; The Australian accent. This masterpiece by journalist and philogist Sidney J. Baker was initially published in 1945, revised in 1966, and first printed by Sun Books in 1970. ISBN: 0725103825

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