Language is a means by which people communicate, and the choice of spoken and written language is influenced by a person’s culture and the Discourse they are in. Spoken Australian Standard English (ASE) differs from its written form, in that the speaker must be clear in what they are saying, so the listener can make meaning of the conversation. If the listener does not understand, they are able to ask questions to clarify meaning. Also, intonation plays an important role in understanding the context
Support for these claims is documented to help people understand that lived experience of Indigenous Australians. Klugman and Osmond have conducted a thorough investigation of Indigenous dispossession with previous acts of Racism, drawing attention to Charlie McAdam, an Indigenous man, father of Gilbert McAdam who played alongside Nicky Winmar in 1992. The
European colonisation has had a devastating effect on Indigenous culture in Australia. Centuries ago, the indigenous Australian have already existed in Australia. However, with the European invasion in the 1700s, Aboriginal people have ended up been the victims of the world unnatural to their existence for thousands of years. Things started to change during the late 1700s, the time when colonisation was instigated by Europeans and the British, the indigenous culture in Australia was severely damaged
The Poem “Memo to J.C” from 1988, was written by Maureen Watson who was an aboriginal herself. She was popular and highly-respected by non-natives as well as Aboriginal Australians. She was at the forefront of Aboriginal rights. In 1996 she was awarded the Australia Council Red Ochre award because of her national and international work with Aboriginal art. Also she received the United Nations Association Global Leadership Prize for her outstanding work towards building cross-cultural understanding
of the old British Imperialism are still found today in the different varieties of the English language we encounter in the former colonies. Amongst its major varieties, there is Australian English, used in Australia, that differs from British English and other varieties in a number of aspects, primarily accent and vocabulary. But what happened in Australia? Europeans were not the first to inhabit the Australian continent. 50,000 years ago, the land was occupied by the ancestors of the indigenous
Smith (1976) was one of the first people who defined the term “International Language”. According to him: “International Language is one which is used by people of different nations to communicate with each other” He made certain assertions that show the relation between culture and international language. His assumptions are: • It’s not necessary for a learner of an international language to adopt the cultural norms as well. • The ownership of the worldwide dialect gets to be denationalized. •
the south-east of People’s Republic of China and occupied 2,755 km2 . English and Chinese are the official languages of Hong Kong. According to the 2016 Population By-census conducted by the Census and Statistic Department, among 7.34 million population, 92 percentage is Chinese, other ethnicities occupied 8 percentage and in the 8 percent, Filipinos and Indonesians are the majority. Chinglish refers to the Sinicized English usually found in pronunciation, lexicology and syntax, due to the linguistic
1. a. anorak The word originated from the Greenlandic word ‘anoraq’. It was first used in the English language in 1924 to describe the western imitations of an “anoraq” (OED Online, 2011). It is possible that the ‘q’ in the original word was replaced with ‘k’ as there is very few English words that end with ‘q’ so it was anglicised instead. Later in 1984, it also became British slang for a boring, studious or socially inept person (OED Online, 2014). According to Cresswell (2010), this is because
hopelessness beside all those interesting and joyful actions, it’s remind me of a day were I first step in the Australia. The poem 'Be good, little migrants' is a mysteriously ironic perspective on what is predictable of migrants in contemporary Australian society. It is analyze the ways in which minority groups are exploited and patronized by mainstream society.
English Stage 2: Summative critical reading Word limit: 1000 words a) How does G.M. Shepard’s recount of Bill Cumming’s behaviour illustrate his central points about sport? G.M. Shepard, the author of Sport – more than a game? revolves his argument around an anecdote told early in the piece as a way of presenting his point to the reader that Australia as a society takes sport “far too seriously”. Shepard uses this recount of a story that everyone would have witnessed at some point in their lives