Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia
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Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal Studies Press, 1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographies
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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