In Australia we are never going to speak the same way. Why is that?
Antstralia is arguably one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world. Our diversity extends from food to culture to our widely varying language. Australians utilise different accents to achieve a wide range of social purposes. Our language evolves and shifts to cater for our changing needs and the increasing influx of immigrants will bring more and more cultural mix into Austrlaina. And for these reasons, our language will continue to change, differ and certainly we will never speak in the same way.
The language we use is constantly evolving. Our dictionry is constantly being updated with new words, old outdated words are constantly fading away. According to linguist …show more content…
If everyone spoke the same way, then there will be plenty of dullness and a much less interesting world, linguistically. In Australia, we differentiate ourselves through our look, our status and most importantly through the way we speak. Our need to be unique can be seen in Chris Lilley’s television mockumentary ‘Ja’mie: Private School Girl’. In the TV series, Ja’mie, creates a made up word ‘quiche’ to show her difference and maintains and strengthens her friendship with the ‘in-group’ who speaks in a similar manner. This allows Ja’mie to be perceived as interesting, different and certainly very effective in creating a sense of covert prestige and promotes group belonging. This is also seen on a larger scale, The three main accents of Austalia are one significant aspect of how we distinguish a speaker. Namely, Broad accents usually carry negative connotations including lower socio-economic class, however is perceived as more friendly. And Cultivated accent signals high social class, gaining acceptance within groups of similar status and having similar goals. This is apparent in the popular YouTube video ‘Bondi Hipsters- Dom and Adrian’, the two hipsters, Dom and Adrian, spoke with hipster slang such as ‘sich’,’chrissy’(situation, Christmas) or phrases like ‘people commit 187’(Californian penal code for muder), such language is not common found in an average person’s vocabulary. By utilising unique group …show more content…
As pointed out by Dean Frankel from The Age, ‘The unified Aussie language is a complex soup of many accented languages’. Another effect of this changing cultural mix is its ability to change others. In the radiation (wireless transmission) of electromagnetic signals through the atmosphere or free space to transfer information interview, ‘A tale of two townsvilles’, one of the interviewees, Brookes, who is not Indigenous, but spoke with indigenous Australian features. Including the non-standard possesive form ‘me’ when ‘my’ should be used, rollof the ‘t’ sound so ‘Marty’ is pronounced as ‘Marddy’ and non-standard syntactic features suh as ‘we’ve seen’ instead of ‘we saw’. In this example, Brookes follows and adapts his language to tat of his peers, because he lives in a predominently indigenous communiy, in order to fit in and to create social belonging. Reflecting people’s need to belong through shape-shifting our language to better fit in with different cultural
Antstralia is arguably one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world. Our diversity extends from food to culture to our widely varying language. Australians utilise different accents to achieve a wide range of social purposes. Our language evolves and shifts to cater for our changing needs and the increasing influx of immigrants will bring more and more cultural mix into Austrlaina. And for these reasons, our language will continue to change, differ and certainly we will never speak in the same way.
The language we use is constantly evolving. Our dictionry is constantly being updated with new words, old outdated words are constantly fading away. According to linguist …show more content…
If everyone spoke the same way, then there will be plenty of dullness and a much less interesting world, linguistically. In Australia, we differentiate ourselves through our look, our status and most importantly through the way we speak. Our need to be unique can be seen in Chris Lilley’s television mockumentary ‘Ja’mie: Private School Girl’. In the TV series, Ja’mie, creates a made up word ‘quiche’ to show her difference and maintains and strengthens her friendship with the ‘in-group’ who speaks in a similar manner. This allows Ja’mie to be perceived as interesting, different and certainly very effective in creating a sense of covert prestige and promotes group belonging. This is also seen on a larger scale, The three main accents of Austalia are one significant aspect of how we distinguish a speaker. Namely, Broad accents usually carry negative connotations including lower socio-economic class, however is perceived as more friendly. And Cultivated accent signals high social class, gaining acceptance within groups of similar status and having similar goals. This is apparent in the popular YouTube video ‘Bondi Hipsters- Dom and Adrian’, the two hipsters, Dom and Adrian, spoke with hipster slang such as ‘sich’,’chrissy’(situation, Christmas) or phrases like ‘people commit 187’(Californian penal code for muder), such language is not common found in an average person’s vocabulary. By utilising unique group …show more content…
As pointed out by Dean Frankel from The Age, ‘The unified Aussie language is a complex soup of many accented languages’. Another effect of this changing cultural mix is its ability to change others. In the radiation (wireless transmission) of electromagnetic signals through the atmosphere or free space to transfer information interview, ‘A tale of two townsvilles’, one of the interviewees, Brookes, who is not Indigenous, but spoke with indigenous Australian features. Including the non-standard possesive form ‘me’ when ‘my’ should be used, rollof the ‘t’ sound so ‘Marty’ is pronounced as ‘Marddy’ and non-standard syntactic features suh as ‘we’ve seen’ instead of ‘we saw’. In this example, Brookes follows and adapts his language to tat of his peers, because he lives in a predominently indigenous communiy, in order to fit in and to create social belonging. Reflecting people’s need to belong through shape-shifting our language to better fit in with different cultural