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The Default Country: A Lexical Cartography of Twentieth-Century Australia

By JM Arthur

Book information

Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0868405426, 9780868405421
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
897 kB (918705 bytes)
Pages
224\225
Time added
2016-11-10 09:56:59
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Description

English was shaped by a damp green land in the far north and became the language of a wide brown land, Australia. How does that affect people’s response to the land they love? How does our use of language reveal the nature of our relation to this country? In this highly original book, JM Arthur makes ‘word maps’ of Australia, and through her process of ‘lexical cartography’ explores the relations between language and landscape.

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