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Living language
Susan Butler, Macquarie Dictionary, and Roly Sussex, University of Queensland
Weekend of Ideas, 20 March 2010
Susan Butler and Roly Sussex discuss the idea that a living Australian English is all about change and infiltration by ‘multiple, parallel streams’ as spoken by Aboriginal people, Southern European migrants, English-speakers in other countries and so on.
Weekend of Ideas
- Bendable learningsDon Watson, writer
- Love of languageDavid Malouf, writer
- Language and identityJeanie Bell, Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education
- The language of power and persuasionJulian Burnside, barrister, activist and writer
- A life in dictionariesDr Bruce Moore, Australian National Dictionary Centre
- Living languageSusan Butler, Macquarie Dictionary, and Roly Sussex, University of Queensland
