Adam Smith is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has researched and published extensively in the area of language variation over time and across regions, lexicography and the theory and practice of editing . Peter Collins is an Honorary Professor in Linguistics at University of South Wales, Sydney, and former editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics. His primary area of research focuses on the grammar of English, as well as Australian English and World Englishes respectively.

• Introduction Peter Collins and Adam Smith; Section 1. Usage Variation and Codification: 1. 'All-governing custom': corpus evidence in Pam Peters' Usage Guide Don Chapman; 2. On national dictionaries: pluricentricity in the transnational context and the example of standard Canadian English Stefan Dollinger; 3. 'No 'Afringlish', please, we're British': contemporary editorial practice and usage commentaries on South African English since the 1970s Bertus van Rooy, Haidee Kotze and Melanie Ann Law Favo; 4. Being representative? Standardisation of the spoken word in Australian and British Hansard Adam Smith and Nigel Brew; Section 2. Usage Variation Amid Social Diversity and Political Change: 5. Effects of L1 and social attitudes on English gender-fair pronouns Morana Lukac and Evan D. Bradley; 6. Lexical influence of migrant languages on English in Australia Loy Lising and Sandra Gotz; 7. Metaphor variations in public discourse in a dynamic multilingual society Winnie Huiheng Zeng, Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang; 8. Light-verb constructions vs. simplex verbs in Sri Lankan English: corpus-based explorations of sociobiographic and structural factors Tobias Bernaisch; 9. Uniformity and diversity at the same time? Artificial intelligence and the standardisation paradox in twenty-first century English Christian Mair; Section 3. Corpus-Based Research on Variable Usage in Place and Medium: 10. Non-standard morphosyntactic features in colloquial Australian English Peter Collins; 11. Looking forward to meet you: an embryonic pattern in Asian Englishes? Edgar W. Schneider; 12. More so/moreso: the rise of a new conjunctive adverb? Laurel Brinton; 13. Changing complementation of antagonistic protest Marianne Hundt; 14. Evaluating three advanced methods for sociophonetic studies: whisper, LaBB-CAT and PrInDT Andreas Weilinghoff and Sarah Buschfeld; 15. Triangulating methods to investigate language variation in left- and right-leaning Australian Twitter (X) users: a case study on 'climate' Darcy McCarthy and Monika Bednarek; Epilogue Kate Burridge; Index.

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