Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative: Australian Stories

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David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia) J R Martin (University of Sydney Australia)

Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative

Australian Stories

David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia), J R Martin (University of Sydney Australia), John S Knox (Macquarie University Australia) , David Caldwell (University of South Australia Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
25 July 2024

Sociolinguistics; Semantics; Translation & interpretation

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Celebrating the diverse languages of Australia’s First Peoples, this book presents stories told by elders in eighteen languages from around the continent, and explores their patterns of meaning.

The stories recount the experiences of the tellers and histories of their communities, from tales of anti-colonial resistance to origin stories of the Dreaming. The book aims to make the languages accessible and engaging through the voices of the elders, while building readers’ knowledge about language and language learning. It opens with some basic language knowledge for reading the stories. Each chapter then begins with the cultural and historical contexts of the stories, which are first previewed in English translation, then presented sentence-by-sentence, setting out the original sounds and wordings, glossed with plain English. Extracts are selected to illustrate patterns of meanings that are characteristic of each language. The final chapter sums up the various meaning patterns the stories use, and interprets their evolution in the light of First Peoples’ deep histories, as recorded by archaeology and traditional knowledge.

The book will be useful for language learning programs in communities and schools, for researchers of language and language teaching, and for any reader with an interest in the languages and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples.

By: David Rose (University of Sydney Australia)
Edited by: J R Martin (University of Sydney Australia), John S Knox (Macquarie University Australia), David Caldwell (University of South Australia Australia), Jing Hao
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350413894
ISBN 10: 1350413895
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 25 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Reading the Stories 2. The West 3. Northern Grasslands 4. Northeast 5. Flinders Ranges and Darling River 6. Southeast 7. Northwest 8. Papua 9. Patterns of Meaning References Index

David Rose is an Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney, Australia, and Director of Reading to Learn, an international literacy program.

Reviews for Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative: Australian Stories

This book presents the historical background of different Australian Aboriginal languages followed by very detailed analyses of traditional narrative texts in those languages using relatively non-technical terms. This makes it useful for the descendants of the story tellers and also for linguists, anthropologists, and historians. - Randy J. LaPolla, Professor of Linguistics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.