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More than mere words : essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton /

The contributors reflect on Sutton's important contribution to linguistics and the study of Australian languages. The volume's title captures both the complexity of languages as systems embedded in their social contexts through space and time, and a sense that this celebration of Peter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sutton, Peter, 1946- (honouree.), Monaghan, Paul (Editor ), Walsh, Michael, 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Imprint
  • Contents page 1
  • Contents page 2
  • List of Figures, Maps and Tables
  • Preface
  • Part 1
  • Approaches to language
  • Chapter 1
  • The nexus of anthropology and linguistics in Australia
  • Chapter 2
  • Language ideologies in Central Australia 1890-1910
  • Part 2
  • Language in place
  • Chapter 3
  • Landscape categorisation in two Middle Paman languages
  • Chapter 4
  • Barngarla connection to Lake Torrens
  • Chapter 5
  • Five toas
  • Part 3
  • Language in historical and cultural context
  • Chapter 6
  • Finger on the pulse
  • Chapter 7
  • Peter Sutton and the socio-cultural dynamics of Indigenous Australian multilingualism
  • Chapter 8
  • Junior skin names in Central Australia
  • Chapter 9
  • Revisiting Lamalamic metathesis
  • Chapter 10
  • Wheeled vehicle terminology in Australian languages
  • Part 4
  • Language endangered
  • Chapter 11
  • 'Linguistic social work' and the 'hopeless cause'
  • Chapter 12
  • The Rib (or Areba) of south-western Cape York Peninsula
  • Chapter 13
  • Aboriginal world views even in limited word lists
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Wakefield Press
  • Back cover.