Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia by Walsh, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents NOTES ON LINGUISTIC CONVENTIONS PREFACE CHAPTER 1 - LANGUAGES AND THEIR STATUS IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA

NUMBER OF LANGUAGES THE DECLINE OF AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES THE NATURE OF AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES THE EFFECTS OF CONTACT ON AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES A LINGUISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH XECOXDING AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES RESPONDING TO NEW CHALLENGES LANGUAGE AND ABORIGINALITY FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 2 - THE STRUCTURE OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES

CLASSIFICATION GRAMMAR THE GRAMMAR OF AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES BEING AND HAVING IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES QUESTIONS SOME OTHER POINTS OF GRAMMAR CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 3 - LANGUAGE CONTACT IN EARLY COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES 1788 TO 1791

THE BEGINNING OF CONTACT THE FIRST LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENT: THE CAPTURE AND TRAINING OF ARABANOO THE SECOND LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENT: BENNELONG’S COOPERATION INFORMAL CONTACTS EXPERIENCES OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE OFFICERS OF THE MARINES AND ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES WILLIAM DAWES AND HIS RESEARCHES LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE CONTACT IN SYDNEY CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 4 - TASMANIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: OLD AND NEW IDENTITIES

THE MYTH OF EXTINCTION THE DISTANT PAST: THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES THE COLONIAL IMPACT NON-PASTORAL CONTACTS: THE BEGINNINGS OF A NEW LANGUAGE THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED COMMUNITY THE LINGERING LANGUAGE MAINTAINING A LINGUISTIC IDENTITY FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES NOTE

CHAPTER 5 - BUNDJALUNG: TEACHING A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE

INTRODUCTION THE SPECIAL PLACE OF BUNDJALUNG SOME FEATURES OF BUNDJALUNG DIFFERENCES AMONG THE DIALECTS OF BUNDJALUNG WHY DO PEOPLE LEARN BUNDJALUNG? ISSUES IN TEACHING A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 6 - LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: SOCIALISATION IN A WARLPIRI COMMUNITY

THE WARLPIRI LANGUAGE SOCIALISATION AND LEARNING SKIN NAMES BABY TALK KIN TERMINOLOGY EARLY UTTERANCES THE CURRENT SITUATION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 7 - OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY WAYS OF USING A LANGUAGE

REGISTERS RESPECT REGISTERS RESPECT VOCABULARY AND CLASSIFICATION THE NATURE OF RESPECT INITIATION REGISTERS SIGN LANGUAGE CONCLUSION FURTHER READING FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 8 - CLASSIFYING THE WORLD IN AN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE

INTRODUCTION MULTIPLE MEMBERSHIP IN NOUN CLASSES PROTOTYPICAL CHARACTERISATION DISCUSSION CLASSIFYING THE WORLD IN ENGLISH CLASSIFYING THE WORLD IN OTHER ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, NOTES AND BACKGROUND FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 9 - MAIMING DICTIONARIES

HOW MANY WORDS ARE THERE IN A LANGUAGE? ASSEMBLAGES OF WORDS WORD STORAGE IN AN ORAL CULTURE THE FIRST WORD-LISTS OF ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGES A DICTIONARY OF THE ADELAIDE LANGUAGE COMPILATIONS OF WORD-LISTS FROM DIFFERENT LANGUAGES THE DEMANDS FOR MODERN DICTIONARIES CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 10 - LOSING AND GAINING A LANGUAGE: THE STORY OF KRIOL IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY

PIDGINS: ANSWERS TO A PROBLEM CREOLES: RESPONSES TO A NEED KRIOL: THE STORY OF A NEW CREOLE THE KRIOL BIBLE TRANSLATION CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 11 - KRIOL: THE CREATION OF A WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND A TOOL OF COLONISATION

WHAT IS KRIOL? THE CURRENT USES OF KRIOL LITERACY KRIOL AT NGUKURR CREOLE AT NAUIYU NAMBIYU NGAN‘GIWATYFALA ORTHOGRAPHY DESIGNING AN ORTHOGRAPHY THE FUTURE OF CREOLE LITERACY A TEXT IN THREE ORTHOGRAPHIES FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 12 - THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSION: THE BOLDEN CASE, VICTORIA 1845

STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK MY BONES... DESCRIBING VIOLENCE POPULAR THEORISING ABOUT RACE JUSTIFYING VIOLENCE CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 13 - LANGUAGE AND THE LAW: WHITE AUSTRALIA v NANCY

INTRODUCTION NANCY’S STORY UNDERSTANDING NANCY’S STORY FOR DISCUSSION WIDER BACKGROUND

CHAPTER 14 - LANGUAGE AND TERRITORIALITY IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA

INTRODUCTION LANGUAGE AND ‘TRIBE’ THE ABORIGINAL LAND COMMISSION LAND, LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE LINK BETWEENLANGUAGE AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CONCLUSION FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES

CHAPTER 15 - NEW USES FOR OLD LANGUAGES

INTRODUCTION THE NEW USES AND THEIR EFFECTS THE CASE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION DISCOURSE PATTERNING THE IMPACT OF WRITING SOURCES FOR NEW VOCABULARY THE PARADOX OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTENANCE FOR DISCUSSION REFERENCES NOTE

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