PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICANISATION OF AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF VARIATION

Abstract

The study is based on sociolinguistic interview material gathered by the author in the tiny country town of Blayney, New South Wales, with people ranging in age from adolescent to middle-aged to older. Given the scarcity of crossgenerational studies, this thesis makes an essential contribution to the empirical sociolinguistic study of contemporary Australian English.