Презентация на тему Австралийский английский

name given to the group of dialects spoken in

Australia that form a major variety of the English language

after the foundation of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788.

result of the first Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, also

had a significant influence on Australian English, including large numbers of people who spoke English as a second language.

the borrowing of words, spellings, terms, and usages from North

American English — began during the goldrushes, and was accelerated by a massive influx of United States military personnel during World War II. The large-scale importation of television programs and other mass media content from the US, from the 1950s onwards, including more recently US computer software, especially Microsoft's spellchecker, has also had a significant effect

is most similar to that of New Zealand and is also

similar to accents from the South-East of Britain, particularly those of Cockney and Received Pronunciation. As with most dialects of English, it is distinguished primarily by its vowelphonology.
Australian English vowels are divided into two categories: long, which includes long monophthongs and diphthongs, and short, all of which are monophthongs

be three main varieties of Australian English. These are

Broad, General and Cultivated Australian English.

variety. It is familiar to English speakers around the

world because of its use in identifying Australian characters in non-Australian films and television programs. Examples include television personalities Steve Irwin and Dame Edna Everage, Pauline Hanson

English. It is the variety of English used by

the majority of Australians and it dominates the accents found in contemporary Australian-made films and television programs. Examples include actors Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman.

and is often mistaken for it. Cultivated Australian English

is now spoken by less than 10% of the population. Examples include actors Judy Davis, Robert Hughes, Geoffrey Rush.

the trademarks of Australian English, included billabong (a waterhole), jumbuck (a sheep), corroboree (an assembly), boomerang (a

curved throwing stick), and budgerigar (from budgeree, “good” and gar, “parrot”).

is quite small and is confined to the namings of plants

(like bindieye and calombo, trees (like boree, banksia, quandong and mallee), birds (like currawong, galah and kookaburra), animals (like wallaby and wombat) and fish (like barramindi).

like piccaninny and bilong (belong). They used familiar pidgin English variants like talcum and catchum. The most famous

example is gammon, an eighteenth-century Cockney word meaning “a lie”.

the South and East of England, London, Scotland and Ireland. To

take just a few examples, words like corker, dust-up, purler and tootsy all came Australia from Ireland; billy comes from the Scottish bally, meaning “a milk pail”. A typical Australianism like fossick, meaning “to search unsystematically”, is a Cornish word. Cobber came from the Suffolk verb to cob, “to take a liking to someone”. Tucker is widely used for “food”. Clobber has Romany roots and is originally recorded in Kent as clubbered up, meaning “dressed up”.

very offensive), aggro (aggressive), ambo (ambulance office), arvo (afternoon), avo (avocado), bizzo (business), bottleo (bottle

shop/liquor store), compo (compensation), dero (homeless person – from derelict), devo (deviant/pervert), doco (documentary), evo (evening), fisho (fishmonger), fruito (fruiterer), garbo (garbage collector), gyno (gynaecologist), journo (journalist), kero (kerosene), metho (methylated spirits), milko (milkman), Nasho (National Service – compulsory military service), reffo (refugee), rego (vehicle registration), Salvo (member of the Salvation Army), servo (service station/gas station), smoko (smoke or coffee/tea break), thingo (thing, whadjamacallit), vejjo (vegetarian),etc.

agricultural science), Aussie (Australian), barbie (barbeque), beautie (beautiful, stereotypically pronounced and even

written bewdy), bikkie (biscuit), bitie (biting insect), blowie (blowfly), bookie (bookmaker), brekkie (breakfast), brickie (bricklayer), Brizzie (Brisbane – state capital of Queensland), Bushie (someone who lives in the bush), chewie (chewing gum), chokkie (chocolate), Chrissie (Christmas), exy (expensive),lippy (lipstick), oldies (parents), postie (postman), sunnies (sunglasses), surfy (surfing fanatic), swaggie (swagman), truckie (truck driver), vedgie (vegetable) etc.

Barry becomes Bazza, Karen becomes Kazza and Sharon becomes Shazza.
There are also a lot

of abbreviations in Australian English without any suffixes. Examples of these are the words
beaut (great, beautiful), deli (delicatessen), nana (banana), roo (kangaroo), uni (university),etc.