Australian English as a regional epicentre
Australian English as a regional epicentre
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澳大利亚英语作为区域中心
DOI：
10.1075/veaw.g40.09pet
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Pam Peters
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作者：
Pam Peters
本文探讨了一个不断发展的英语区域标准是否会影响邻近变体的发展，同时仍然巩固自己的身份。在澳大利亚英语中，这可以从几种词汇创新中看出，这些词汇创新与澳大利亚英语有着独特的或强烈的联系，随后进入了新西兰词汇，例如适用于农业的罪犯术语，土著借词，以及以-ie/-y和-o结尾的hypocoristics等形态发展。这些世纪澳大利亚人输入新西兰英语的历史背景是澳大利亚移民参与新西兰畜牧业。这表明，一个区域性的变种在成为一个完全成熟的震中之前，可以产生区域性的影响。
This paper explores whether an evolving regional standard of English could impact on the development of neighboring varieties while still consolidating its own identity. In the case of Australian English this can be seen in several kinds of lexical innovation, which are uniquely or strongly associated with it and have subsequently entered the New Zealand lexicon, e.g. convict terms adapted for agriculture, Aboriginal loanwords, and morphological developments such as hypocoristics ending in -ie/-y and -o. The historical context for these 19th century Australian inputs to New Zealand English was the participation of Australian emigrants in the New Zealand pastoral industry. It shows that a regional variety can exercise areal influence before becoming a fully fledged epicenter.