Monolingual mindset in the lucky country

Ingrid Piller

Monolingual mindset in the lucky country

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Abstract

National holidays are there to celebrate the nation and the opinion pages tend to be full of self-congratulation on such occasions. Australia is no exception and one of the more over-excited ones that was produced on the occasion of Australia Day last week came from Ross Cameron, a former Liberal (and in Australia that means “conservative”) member of parliament, who got voted out of office in 2004. In the piece, Ross Cameron lists all kinds of facts and factoids as evidence of his claim that Australia is “the country that won the lottery.” It is the following of these “facts” that caught my attention: Elsewhere, accents fractionate people into place of origin but there is no change in inflection among the Australian-born from Perth to Parramatta.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2010

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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