Lexical monographs
Historical Monographs
Furphies and whizz-bangs: Anzac slang from the great war
Author/editor: Amanda Laugesen
Year published: 2014
Amanda Laugesen. Oxford University Press. 250 pages. ISBN 9780195597356. Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Anzac Slang from the Great War tells the story of the First World War through an examination of the slang used by Australian soldiers. Drawing on a range of primary source material taken from soldiers...
A Lexicon of Cadet Language: Royal Military College, Duntroon, in the period 1983 to 1985
Author/editor: Bruce Moore
Year published: 1993
Bruce Moore. Australian National Dictionary Centre, 1993. 488 pages. ISBN 0 67315 1377 0 This book documents many aspects of the language of male army cadets at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia, in the period 1983 to 1985 (immediately prior to the creation in 1986 of the Australian...
Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia
Author/editor: Amanda Laugesen
Year published: 2002
Amanda Laugesen Oxford University Press, 2002. 208 pages. ISBN 019551655. This dictionary is the first dictionary to document the words that shaped this language, a language that in itself helped to shape the nation. It captures the 'mythic' convict Australia: the lags, canaries, and magpies;...
Gold! Gold! Gold! The Language of the Nineteenth-Century Australian Goldfields
Author/editor: Bruce Moore
Year published: 2000
Bruce Moore. Oxford University Press, 2000. 190 pages. ISBN 0 19 550838 6 This book examines the language of the the nineteenth-century Australian goldfields. It takes the form of a dictionary, with supporting quotations from contemporary texts. More than 500 headwords cover many aspects of the...
W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects
Author/editor: J.M. Arthur & W.S. Ramson
Year published: 1990
Ed. J.M. Arthur and W.S. Ramson. Oxford University Press, 1990. 257 pages. ISBN 0 19 553233 3 W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects was first published in 1919. The words and phrases used by Australian Service personnel were recorded `live' in 1919 by Downing, and are presented in this new edition with...
Diggerspeak: The Language of Australians at War
Author/editor: Amanda Laugesen
Year published: 2005
Amanda Laugesen. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 555182 6. Wars have been highly significant in the development of Australian English, generating new words and meanings. Rather than a collection of military slang or jargon, this dictionary draws together the diverse words produced and used by...
History of Australian English
Speaking Our Language The Story of Australian English
Author/editor: Bruce Moore
Year published: 2008
Bruce Moore. Oxford University Press, 2008. 225 pages. ISBN: 9780195565782 This is an account of where Australian English came from, what the forces were that moulded it, why it takes its present form, and where it is going. The subtitle of thebook, The Story of Australian English, derives in part...
What's Their Story? A History of Australian Words
Author/editor: Bruce Moore
Year published: 2010
Bruce Moore. Oxford University Press, 2010. 216 pages. ISBN: 9780195575002 A companion volume to Speaking Our Language, this major new work examines Australian words from two main perspectives: the histories of particular words, and the history of thematically linked words. This is a collection of...
General Lexicographical Studies
Who's Centric Now? The Present State of Post-Colonial Englishes
Author/editor: Bruce Moore
Year published: 2001
Bruce Moore ed. Oxford University Press, 2001. 320 pages. ISBN 0 19 551450 5. These are the papers from a conference held at the Australian National University 27 to 29 October 1999. The conference was sponsored by Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand, the Australian National...
Lexical Images: The Story of the Australian National Dictionary
Author/editor: W.S. Ramson
Year published: 2002
W.S. Ramson. Oxford University Press, 2002. Bill Ramson, former Director of The Australian National Dictionary Centre relates in detail the fascinating and sometimes controversial story behind the making of an Australian icon, the Australian National Dictionary, the first historical dictionary of...
