Attitudes to Australian English: The Australian English contains three varieties of accents which include Broad, General and

Cultivated. Each of the varieties provide unique distinctions which works as indications of the speakers education, gender identification, location and also stylistic requirements. With the varieties all sounding phonologically different, the sounds of a typically rural Australian accent to the British Received Pronunciation are easily identified. Geographic is a major factor of the separation of varieties. The Broad end of the variety tends to be speakers from rural or remote areas of Australia, while the cultivated end is mainly speakers from the more urban areas. This is due to the fact that it is mostly the middle and upper class men who use cultivated language and they usually live in the metropolitan area. As for the Broad Australian language, which is also called Strine is most commonly known as the raw Australian English. Speakers of other English languages find it very difficult to follow this variety, as the phonological patterning that comes with this variety is so exclusive. This created negative attitude towards the Australian English up to about 30 years ago as the language was critised as nasal, monotonous, drawling, lazy, slovenly, ugly and careless. Gilbert Mant, from the Interlude program of ABC on the 16th of July 1958, commented I think the Australian accent is ugly and grating on the ear. This shows that some people will have different attitudes towards the Australian English as it is combined with a range of varieties. Another instance, the Australian comedian Tahir Bilgic who is a Turkish man who came to Australia at the age of 4 and became an Australian citizen, talks about how Australian people frequently use metaphors and idioms that are incomprehensible to non-Australian English speakers. For example, Tahir did not understand how Bob was his uncle when someone said to him Bobs your uncle. Tahir also mentions that Ethnic people who come to Australia tend to not understand the proverbs. Aboriginal English: Indigenous Australian English belongs to the nonstandard side of Australian English due to the amount of culture and language it is based upon. Aboriginal English is a dialectal form of English that reflects the Aboriginal culture and language, this extract was taken from Williams, M. 1988 Aboriginal English which proves that Aboriginal people are more connected to their background. It becomes its own dialect within the Australian English as it is spoken by a community of the native speakers as Aboriginal English share many features with standard Australian English but also include features and social language behaviour that come from Aboriginal languages. quoted from an extract of the Education Department of South Australia 1997 'Aboriginal Perspectives Across the Curriculum Adelaide SA. National Identity: The development of Australias national identity was mainly from the two world wars. As an identity function of language, the way the language is written and spoken, the way the words are used, pronounced and spelled, the meaning and the stringing of them and how it is used as an instrument of action can clearly define the speakers of Australian English. It was found by Bradley and Bradley that the oldest informants in 1980 with positive attitudes to Australian English started during and shortly after the First World War. However, the negative attitudes replaced the positive within a decade of the end of the Second World War.