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dc.contributor.authorBromhead, Helen
dc.contributor.editorBromhead, Helen
dc.contributor.editorYe, Zhengdao
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-10T22:59:21Z
dc.date.available2021-01-10T22:59:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.isbn9781760463939
dc.identifier.doi10.22459/MLC.2020.06
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/400831
dc.description.abstractAustralian English can act as a mirror of conceptualisations of and attitudes towards extreme weather and climate events in the country, such as bushfires, drought, cyclones and floods.1 This variety of English encodes specific local meanings; for example, in the domain of landscape, words like creek and bush have particular senses in Australian English (Arthur 2003; Bromhead 2018). Bushfire is an Australian word for an uncontrolled fire in dry trees and shrubs, an event that can threaten homes and people, as well as vegetation and wildlife. The word could be seen as analogous to wildfire as used in North American English for forest fires.2 However, this would be to misunderstand the semantic content brought by the component bush. This chapter provides a rigorous semantic analysis of bushfire, discusses the term’s status as a cultural keyword in Australian English and offers a cultural script of Australian practices surrounding bushfires.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.sponsorshipGriffith University
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.publisher.placeCanberra
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleMeaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka
dc.relation.ispartofchapter6
dc.relation.ispartofchapternumbers24
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom115
dc.relation.ispartofpageto134
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDiscourse and pragmatics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470405
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470409
dc.titleThe semantics of bushfire in Australian English
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBromhead, H, The semantics of bushfire in Australian English, Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka, 2020, 115-134
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.date.updated2021-01-06T22:45:39Z
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