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J. M. Arthur J. M. Arthur i(A76019 works by) (a.k.a. Jay Mary Arthur)
Born: Established: 1946 ;
Gender: Female
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1 8 y separately published work icon The Default Country : A Lexical Cartography of Twentieth Century Australia J. M. Arthur , Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2003 Z1045882 2003 single work criticism J.M. Arthur focuses on the twentieth century when she uses 'word maps' to interpret the relationship between Australian English and Australia the land. Her work 'investigates typical descriptions of Australia - and their implications. Her narrative plots the discrepancies between the words we use and the intrinsic nature of Australia.'
1 Natural Beauty, Man-Made J. M. Arthur , 2002 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Words for Country : Landscape and Language in Australia 2002;
1 2 y separately published work icon Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study J. M. Arthur , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 Z1871983 1996 single work non-fiction ...'Aboriginal English demonstrates some of the ways in which Aboriginal people over the past two hundred years have made a language of Europe their own. It provides an important and needed understanding of one of the languages of Aboriginal Australia' (Source: Backcover).
1 "My Kind of People" : "Over My Tracks" J. M. Arthur , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 18 no. 1, 2 1994; (p. 204-206)
— Review of My Kind of People : Achievement, Identity and Aboriginality Wayne Coolwell , 1993 anthology life story ; Over My Tracks 1993 single work autobiography
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