Colloquial Language and Slang

• australian english is characterized by suffixation. Most common are -y/ie, -a. and -o
• australian english is anti-authoritarian and playful
• colloquialisms are markers of an informal register
• colloquial language is different from slang as it is more permanant and tend to be widely understood
• register is the degree of formality within a discourse
• diminutives - an affix that shortens a word
• words can be used where connotative rather than denotative meaning is meant
• colloquial language is often used to reduce the social distance between participants
• 3 aussie accents: broad (friendly), general, cultivated (formal)
• language and vocab. shows formality
• blended lexemes able to be found in aussie language
• egilitarian - equality, elimation of class : able to be found in aussie english
• no such thing of proper english - just words of which are more appropriate than others depending on the situation