Book contents
- Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
- Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section 1 Usage Variation and Codification
- Section 2 Usage Variation amid Social Diversity and Political Change
- Section 3 Corpus-Based Research on Variable Usage in Place and Medium
- 10 Non-standard Morphosyntactic Features in Colloquial Australian English
- 11 Looking Forward to Meet You
- 12 More so/Moreso
- 13 Changing Complementation of Antagonistic Protest
- 14 Evaluating Three Advanced Methods for Sociophonetic Studies
- 15 Triangulating Methods to Investigate Language Variation in Left- and Right-Leaning Australian Twitter (X) Users
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
Epilogue
from Section 3 - Corpus-Based Research on Variable Usage in Place and Medium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 June 2026
Book contents
- Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
- Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section 1 Usage Variation and Codification
- Section 2 Usage Variation amid Social Diversity and Political Change
- Section 3 Corpus-Based Research on Variable Usage in Place and Medium
- 10 Non-standard Morphosyntactic Features in Colloquial Australian English
- 11 Looking Forward to Meet You
- 12 More so/Moreso
- 13 Changing Complementation of Antagonistic Protest
- 14 Evaluating Three Advanced Methods for Sociophonetic Studies
- 15 Triangulating Methods to Investigate Language Variation in Left- and Right-Leaning Australian Twitter (X) Users
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
Summary
This volume has been put together to celebrate the many ways that Pam Peters has shaped linguistics in Australia and internationally over the course of her distinguished career. In particular, it honours her contributions as an authority on the usage of Englishes around the world. The Epilogue focuses on the studies in sections 2 and 3 of this volume which present data on the variability of usage across diverse language communities. The range of research featured demonstrates the profound influence Peters’ work has had and will continue to have into the future.
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- Worldwide Perspectives on English UsageInto the Third Millennium, pp. 386 - 391Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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