Gilquin, GaëtanelleBehets-Wydemans, MagaliMagaliBehets-Wydemans2025-05-142025-05-142025-05-142018https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/12341The present study aims to describe and contrast the use of contracted forms (and more precisely Verb- and Not-contractions) in Australian and British English using data from the same registers, namely newspaper articles from both broadsheets and tabloids. The analysis therefore focuses on three main variables: (1) the variety of English (i.e. Australian or British), (2) the type of newspaper (i.e. broadsheet or tabloid), and (3) the type of contraction (i.e. Verb- or Not-contraction). This work sets out to answer the following general research question: To what extent does the use of verbal contracted forms in Australian English differ from its use in British English in two similar registers with different levels of formality (i.e. tabloids and broadsheets)? The study shows a greater use of the contracted forms in the Australian variety. However, no significant difference in terms of their qualitative use has been found.linguisticscontractionBritish EnglishAustralian Englishbroadsheetstabloidsnewspaperstext::thesis::master thesisthesis:16975