Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia

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Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia

edited by Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop

Aboriginal Studies Press, 1993

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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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