Stunned Mullets and Two-Pot Screamers

A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms
5th Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-556316-0
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Stunned mullets and Two-pot screamers: a Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms is a revealing guide to the richness and colour of the Australian language. Now available in this revised, updated and greatly expanded edition, it records the distinctive, inventive slang of Australia and provides a unique insight into Australian life and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Über Autor(innen)

G.A Wilkes was Challis Professor of English Literature from 1966 to 1996 at the University of Sydney, where he had been foundation Professor of Australian Literature. He was editor from 1963- 1987 of Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature.