The Penguin Book of Australian Slang

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang
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Publisher : Penguin Books
Total Pages : 536
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ISBN-10 : 0140255737
ISBN-13 : 9780140255737
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Australian Slang by : Lenie Johansen

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Slang written by Lenie Johansen and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang
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Total Pages : 536
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ISBN-10 : 1854714287
ISBN-13 : 9781854714282
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Australian Slang by : Lenie Johansen

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Slang written by Lenie Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aussie Slang

Aussie Slang
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Publisher : e-penguin
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0140286896
ISBN-13 : 9780140286892
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Aussie Slang by : Sarah Dawson

Download or read book Aussie Slang written by Sarah Dawson and published by e-penguin. This book was released on 1999-08-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Australian say – and what they really mean. Australia has given the world thousands of colouful words and expressions. From the back of Bourke to the rough end of the pineapple, it's all here. Aussie Slang is the phrase book for visitors to Oz. It's ideal reading for local blokes and sheilas, too.

The Penguin Book of Australian Verse

The Penguin Book of Australian Verse
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Publisher : Harmondworth, Penguin Books
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015010311382
ISBN-13 :
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Australian Verse by : John Thompson

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Verse written by John Thompson and published by Harmondworth, Penguin Books. This book was released on 1958 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Slang

Australian Slang
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Publisher : Penguin Australia
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0143009117
ISBN-13 : 9780143009115
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Book Synopsis Australian Slang by : Gordon Kerr

Download or read book Australian Slang written by Gordon Kerr and published by Penguin Australia. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas. Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one- G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly. He's about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. The drongo'll get the spear if he doesn't pull his socks up.

Illywhacker

Illywhacker
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 1001
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ISBN-10 : 9780307764256
ISBN-13 : 0307764257
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Illywhacker by : Peter Carey

Download or read book Illywhacker written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character—espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.

Phraseology and Culture in English

Phraseology and Culture in English
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : 9783110197860
ISBN-13 : 3110197863
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Phraseology and Culture in English by : Paul Skandera

Download or read book Phraseology and Culture in English written by Paul Skandera and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values. The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers. The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.