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    The next stage in the AusDICT project!

    Yesterday, at last, I launched the AuDICT website. That is, The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers website. A dictionary unlike any other, which I have been working on for six years as part of my PhD (graduated in 2019). In honour of it becoming available at last, here are some answers to the most obvious questions about the AusDICT.  I hope you enjoy exploring the AusDICT. What is the AusDICT? The AusDICT is what I call a “cultural dictionary” — a dictionary which focuses on culturally significant concepts. What’s different about this dictionary is that it doesn’t focus on words, but on values, attitudes, and ways of thinking…

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    Imprisoned in English

    This is an infographic explaining why I use Standard Translatable English for cultural description. The information in the infographic is paraphrased from Anna Wierzbicka’s 2014 book Imprisoned in English.