Murray's blending of nationalist traditions and rural pieties is harnessed to a proud reclamation of the vernacular, of the phrases arising from the mixed origins of the settlers, their encounters with Aboriginal vocabulary, and their own neologising of the new and alien world of the bush.
Twitter and other social media offer records of language mutating in real time and space: an immense and novel resource that, while no doubt subject to its own unique quirks, can offer linguists the opportunity to explore how our words and phrases arise from acts of tacit cultural negotiation. .
Lots of young people are quoting it on Facebook, and they seem to think it's a phrase that arose in response to the current military operation in Gaza.
My mind unconsciously patters out its joyous, nonsensical, splendidly Irish phrases whenever an opportunity arises.
If one adopts the preferred solution of replacing proper names by demonstrative phrases, a similar problem arises.
In this sense, the term corporate governance typically arises alongside phrases such as investor myopia, short-term goals, incentive alignment, financial crisis, and even corporate misconduct and accounting fraud.
The phrase "ship shape and Bristol fashion" arises from when the main harbour in Bristol was tidal, the bottom of which was rocky.
I also upped my intake of French films and magazines, and researched terminology and phrases which might arise in the workplace.
Phrased in Lacanian terms, the question arises what this game of signifiers (notably the recent shift from ELSA to RRI) implies on the level of the 'subjects', i.e. the researchers and research groups involved.
The phrases are tools to help us feel what arises like a pebble dropped in water to see what bubbles up from beneath.
