Culture-Specific Lexical Semantics of Australian "the bush"
The article deals with the semantics of one of the core landscape words and cultural elements in the Australian lexicon - the term “the bush”. The term in question developed its semantics relating Australian culture to the life style and mentality of its people. Contextual analysis reinforces revealing a dynamic development of the polycentric English language and makes the meaning of the term “the bush” a lingua-cultural phenomenon.