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See Sample: Formal Linguistic Features: 2025 Example: Premier’s Department Media Release
Unit 3: Language variation and social purpose
Area Study 1: Informal Language (Study Design 2024-2028)
Characteristics of informal discourse; slang, swearing, language change, shifting taboos, sexist and racist language, “strine”; politeness strategies; tenor; social distance and purpose
Area Study 2: Formal Language (Study Design 2024-2028)
Standard Australian English (SAE rules, regulations); formal language features; jargon; tenor and social distance; positive and negative face needs; social values; hierarchical relationships
Unit 4: Language Variation and Identity
(Study Design 2024-2028)
1. Language variation in Australian society
Standard (Australian) English: SAE; prestige and status; cultural variety; First Nations people; migrant ethnolects; “Aussie English”.
2. Individual and group identities
The role of language in constructing individual and group identities; construction of a “standard” identity and overt norms and non-standard varieties of English and covert norms.