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Bruce Moore

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Email: Bruce.Moore@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 0474

Bruce Moore holds a BA and MA from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. He taught at the University of Sydney, Monash University, and the University of New South Wales (Faculty of Military Studies RMC Duntroon, and the Australian Defence Force Academy) before taking up the position of Reader and Head of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University, in 1994. His research interests include Australian English, Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance literature.

 

Selected Publications

The Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary, 4th edn (Melbourne, OUP, 2006).

Australian Aboriginal Words in English, 2nd edn, R.M.W. Dixon, Bruce Moore, W.S. Ramson, & Mandy Thomas (Melbourne, OUP, 2006)

‘Some Terms for Women at an Australian Military Academy’, Maledicta 13 (2005), 29-45.

The Australian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edn (Melbourne, OUP, 2004)

'The Dialect Evidence', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 24 (2004), 21-40.

'Word Games for Historians', EQ Magazine, Winter 2004, 5-6.

The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, 4th edn (Melbourne, OUP, 2003).

The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary, 5th edn (Melbourne, OUP, 2002).

The Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary, 3rd edn (Melbourne, OUP, 2001).

'Queensland Aboriginal Words in Australian English', in Voices of Queensland: Words from the Sunshine State, ed. Julia Robinson (Melbourne, OUP, 2001), 6-33.

Who's Centric Now? The Present State of Post-Colonial Englishes, ed. (Melbourne, OUP, 2001).

'Australian English: Australian Identity', in Who's Centric Now? The Present State of Post-Colonial Englishes, ed. (Melbourne, OUP, 2001).

'Australian English and Indigenous Voices', in English in Australia, ed. D. Blair and P. Collins (Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2001), 133-50.

'Gold! Gold! Gold! The Language of the Nineteenth-Century Australian Gold Rushes', National Library of Australia News (October 2000), 7-10.

Gold! Gold! Gold! The Language of the Nineteenth-Century Australian Goldfields (Melbourne, OUP, 2000).

The Australian Oxford Dictionary (Melbourne, OUP, 1999).

The Australian Modern Oxford Dictionary (with Frederick Ludowyk) (Melbourne, OUP, 1998).

‘Languages’ in The Oxford Companion to Australian History, ed. G. Davison et al. (Melbourne, OUP, 1998), 378-79.

The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, 3rd edn (Melbourne, OUP, 1997).

‘Military slang’ in The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, ed. P. Dennis et al. (Melbourne, OUP, 1995), 378-79.

The Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary (with Frederick Ludowyk) (Melbourne, 1996).

The Australian Oxford Pocket Dictionary, 4th edn (Melbourne, 1996).

A Lexicon of Cadet Language : Royal Military College, Duntroon, in the period 1983 to 1985 (Canberra 1993).

The Australian Oxford Pocket Dictionary, 3rd edn (Melbourne, 1993).

'The Banns in Medieval English Drama', Leeds Studies in English, 24 (1993), 91-122.

'The Wild Man in Some Misericords of St Mary's, Beverley', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal  (1993).

'Langland's Piers Plowman, B-text, lines 112-45', The Explicator, 49 (1991), 200-3.

'"Allone, withouten any compaignye" - The Mayings in Chaucer's Knight's Tale', Chaucer Review, 25 (1991), 285-301.

'The Reeve's Rusty Blade', Medium Ævum, 58 (1989), 304-12.

'The Dominicans' Banner in Wynnere and Wastoure', English Language Notes, 26 (1988), 7-12.

'The Narrator within the Performance: Problems with Two Medieval "Plays"', Comparative Drama, 22 (1988), 21-36. Rpt. in Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays, ed. Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe (New York: AMS Press, 1991), 152-67.

England and the Spanish Armada, ed. (with J.C. Doyle) (Canberra, 1990).

'The Hobby-Horse and the Court Masque', Notes and Queries, N.S. 35 (1988), 25-26.

'Margery Kempe: The Word and the Flesh', in Art and Infatuation, Occasional Paper No. 6 (English Dept., University College, ADFA, 1986), pp. 16-37.

'Aboriginal Song and Narrative in Translation', in The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, ed. W.H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, & Barry Andrews (Melbourne, 1985), pp. 10-14. Revised 1994.

Old English Texts, ed. B. Moore & J. Noble (Monash, 1982). An anthology of Old English prose and poetry, with page-facing glossary and commentary, and with a Grammar and Syntax of Old English. Revised edition 1984. 366 pages. Reprinted 1986.

'Stoppard's Unicorn -- "A horse with an arrow in its forehead"?: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', in Viewpoints 80, ed. B. McFarlane (Melbourne, 1980), pp. 140-148.

"The Thryth-Offa Digression in Beowulf," Neophilologus, 64 (1980), 127-133.

'"A Room with Three Walls"? Chekhov's Uncle Vanya', in Viewpoints 79, ed. B. McFarlane (Melbourne, 1979), pp. 179-197.

'"A Waste of Love"? Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith', in Perspectives 78, ed. J. Fox & B. McFarlane (Melbourne, 1978), pp. 138-150.

'Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"', in Viewpoints 78, ed. B. McFarlane (Melbourne, 1978), pp. 37-46. Reprinted in Perspectives 78, ed. J. Fox & B. McFarlane (Melbourne, 1978).

'The Relevance of the Finnsburh Episode', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 75 (1976), 317-329.

Middle English Verse: A Selection, ed. B. Moore, J. Noble, & J. Strauss (Monash, 1976). An anthology with page-facing glossary, notes, and commentary. 259 pages.

'"I wol no lenger pleye with thee": Chaucer's Rejection of the Pardoner', Parergon, 14 (1976), 52-62.

'Eacen in Beowulf and Other Old English Poetry', English Language Notes, 13 (1976), 161-165.

 

Radio Talks

View the transcripts of some talks given on the ABC radio program 'Lingua Franca'

• Mate... 24/9/2005
• Lost for Words 20/5/2006
• Shake-a-leg, talk the talk 16/12/2006
• Australian English: Australian Identity 27/11/1999
• Gold Gold Gold 30/12/00
• What's a Dictionary For ... 30/3/01
• In the Beginning was the Word 16/2/02
• Lexical Images 24/8/2002
• Collateral Language 1/3/2003
• The Australian Accent 13/9/2003
• Talking the Old Jack Lang 25/9/2004

 

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