BRITISH DIALECTS AS A SOURCE OF LEXICON IN AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH VARIETIES
Abstract
The article discusses the issues of English lexicon development in Australian and New Zealand national varieties. It is argued that British regional and social dialects, which were transported during several migration periods to Australia and New Zealand, interacted in sunbstandard English-speaking migrants’ adaptation to the new conditions of life. As they were shaped by complex forces including geographical, historical, cultural and sociolinguistic factors, transported from Britain dialect words increased the role of periphery in the further development of Standard Australian and New Zealand Englishes. Interaction and gradual levelling of transported dialects resulted in the specificity of linguistic and sociocultural setting in Australia and New Zealand. In contrast to Englishes forming a dialectal continuum in the northern hemisphere, migrants to Australia and New Zealand exhibited relatively even geographical distribution, hence provided coexistence of substandard items. Geographical distance from the mother country, specificity of the introduced environment accelerated and balanced the conservative and innovation trends in the development of Australian and New Zealand English lexicons. The findings demonstrated structural, semantic and functional features of British dialectisms in Australian and New Zealand Englishes, revealed their historical resistance, their activity in morphological, semantic, and phraseological derivation, as well as noticeable communicative potential, impact on cultural continuity and language evolution. The results provided evidence on the significant role of peripheral dialectal words in the processes of intralinguistic variation of pluricentric English.
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