Language
Diggerspeak: The language of Australians at war by Amanda Laugesen
by Gary Simes •
Australia's Language Potential by Michael Clyne
by Bruce Moore •
A Word On Words by Pam Peters & Away With Words by Ruth Wajnryb
by Fred Ludowyk •
Death Sentence: The decay of public language by Don Watson
by Julian Burnside •
The Cambridge Encyclopedia Of The English Language (Second Edition) by David Crystal
by Bruce Moore •
Summer Visit by Antigone Kefala & The Island/L’île/To Nisi by Antigone Kefala
by Stathis Gauntlett •
The year 1937 was the centenary of the death of modern Russia’s first great poet, Alexander Pushkin. Celebration was mandatory in the USSR, and it wasn’t a good year to ignore the dictates of Stalin’s bureaucrats. So the Soviet satirist Mikhail Zoschenko takes us into a grim but determined apartment block in Moscow, past a slap-dash artistic rendering of the great poet wreathed in pine branches, into a room where the tenants are gathered and a slightly flustered youngish man is preparing to speak. There is a general doziness and smell of old onions.
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