By Kim on March 17, 2010
They’re at it again: Members of the Liberal Party have been creating a minor storm about the matter of Indigenous recognition. In statements made to the Adelaide Advertiser yesterday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott implied that formal recognition of traditional owners [...]
Posted in Culture, Indigenous, Language, Politics, Race | Tagged brendan nelson, closing the gap, Culture Wars, Eric Abetz, false dichotomy, Indigenous recognition, Language, meaning, Peter Dutton, political correctness, Q&A, Qanda, recognition, Rudd government, Stephanie Convery, symbolism, Tony Abbott, traditional owners |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 16, 2008
Bruce Moore’s new book, Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian Language got a fair bit more press coverage – in the news pages as opposed to the reviews sections – than is usual for a tome authored by an [...]
Posted in Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Education, History, Imperialism, Language, Media, Nationalism | Tagged Australian accent, Australian English, Australian history, Book review, Bruce Moore, cultural studies, Language, linguistics, post-colonial cultures, social linguistics, Sociology, sociology of culture, Speaking Our Langage, vernacular culture, Writings |
By Kim on September 26, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/20070801_jinnan_texting.jpg" align=left Hot on the heels of lexicographer Erin McKean’s advice that if it feels wordish, use it, here comes some more legitimation for linguistic innovation. The well known author and linguist, David Crystal, has published a new book [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Language, Sociology, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, David Crystal, education policy, education wars, Language, linguistics, literacy, sms speak, Sociology, sociology of culture, spelling, spelling variants, text messages, texting, txtng, Writings |
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