How many Aboriginal languages are there? Where are they spoken? How are they learned by children? Are there dictionaries of Aboriginal languages? What is the connection between the land, people and language in Aboriginal Australia? This book answers these questions and more by providing a series of studies of different aspects of language and culture in different parts of Aboriginal Australia.
Edited by:
Michael Walsh, Colin Yallop Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 590g ISBN:9780855752415 ISBN 10: 0855752416 Pages: 250 Publication Date:01 October 2005 Audience:
Adult education
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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A / AS level
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Preface; Languages and Their Status in Aboriginal Australia; The Structure of Australian Aboriginal Languages; Language Contact in Early Colonial New South Wales 1788 to 1791; Tasmanian Aboriginal Language: Old and New Identities; Bundjalung: Teaching a Disappearing Language; Language and Culture: Socialisation in a Warlpiri Community; Out-of-the-Ordinary Ways of Using a Language; Classifying the World in an Aboriginal Language; Making Dictionaries; Losing and Gaining a Language: the Story of Kriol in the Northern Territory; Kriol: the Creation of a Written Language and a Tool of Colonisation; The Language of Oppression: the Bolden Case, Victoria 1845; Language and the Law: White Australia v Nancy; Language and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia; New Uses for Old Languages.