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The habitat of Australia's aboriginal languages : past, present and future /
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
179. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Authors
- Gerhard Leitner and Ian G. Malcolm
- Introduction
- 1. Background, motivation and goal
- 2. Survey of past research
- 3. Content, structure and scope of the book
- References
- Harold Koch
- An Overview of Australian Traditional Languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History of research
- 3. Historical relations among the Australian languages
- 4. Typology of Australian languages
- 5. Aboriginal traditional languages in a changing habitat: exemplified by placenames
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Michael Christie
- Yolngu Language Habitat: Ecology, Identity and Law in an Aboriginal Society
- 1. Feet and bones
- 2. Spring water and ashes
- 3. Nests
- 4. Strings
- 5. Bread
- 6. Hunting
- 7. Lagoons
- 8. Performance
- 9. Nexus
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- Michael Walsh
- Indigenous languages: Transitions from the past to the present
- 1. The state of traditional Aboriginal languages today
- 2. Measuring language vitality.
- 3. The Wadeye (Port Keats) area as a case study
- 4. Factors contributing to language loss
- 5. Competition between Aboriginal languages
- 6. Stages of language loss
- 7. Loss of language = loss of culture?
- 8. New languages
- 9. New uses for traditional Aboriginal languages
- 10. New life for traditional Aboriginal languages
- 11. Information Sources on Traditional Aboriginal Languages
- 12. The future
- References
- Graham McKay
- Language maintenance, shift
- and planning
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The maintenance of Indigenous languages in Australia
- 3. Indigenous languages in education
- 4. Indigenous people in the courts
- 5. National language policy developments
- 6. Funding programs for Indigenous languages
- 7. Significant but scattered policy and planning initiatives
- 8. Ownership and copyright for Aboriginal people in language maintenance
- 9. Conclusion
- References
- John Harris
- Linguistic Responses to Contact: Pidgins and Creoles.
- 1. Languages in Contact
- 2. Pre-European language contact within Australia
- 3. Language contacts with South-east Asia
- 4. Colonization by the English language
- 5. The NSW English Pidgin
- 6. Northern Territory Pidgin English
- 7. Northern Territory Kriol
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- Ian G. Malcolm and Ellen Grote
- Aboriginal English: Restructured Variety for Cultural Maintenance
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aboriginal English: A distinctive variety
- 3. English restructured for the Indigenous habitat
- 4. Functions of Aboriginal English
- 5. Regional, social, and stylistic variation of Aboriginal English
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Farzad Sharifian
- Aboriginal Language Habitat and Cultural Continuity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cultural conceptualizations
- 3. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Gerhard Leitner
- The Aboriginal contribution to Australia's language habitat
- 1. A habitat approach to contact and its implications.
- 2. The social history of language contact
- 3. The Aboriginal impact on AusE and mAusE
- 4. Exploiting Australia's language resources
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Gary Partington and Ann Galloway
- Issues and Policies in School Education
- 1. The multiple obstacles to success for Indigenous students
- 2. Historical factors influencing the pattern of Indigenous education
- 3. Policies influencing the pattern of Indigenous education
- 4. Social factors influencing the pattern of Indigenous education
- 5. School factors influencing the pattern of Indigenous education
- 6. Improving outcomes
- 7. TAFE initiatives for Indigenous school students
- 8. Teacher education
- 9. Indigenous teachers and support staff
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- Ian G. Malcolm and Patricia Königsberg
- Bridging the Language Gap in Education
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The gap between Indigenous and mainstream speech communities.
- 3. Educational policy and the gap in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal performance
- 4. Approaches to bridging the educational gap
- 5. The contrasting agendas of diversity and the dominant culture
- 6. Conclusion: Bridging the gap
- References
- Diana Eades
- Aboriginal English in the Criminal Justice System
- 1. Aboriginal participation in the legal system
- 2. Aboriginal English and fabricated confessions
- 3. Intercultural communication in the legal process
- 4. Intercultural communication awareness and the delivery of justice?
- 5. Conclusion
- 6. Cases cited
- References
- Rob Amery
- Aboriginal Language Habitat in Research and Tertiary Education
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aboriginal language as the object of research
- 3. Shifting focus of research
- 4. Research ethics
- 5. The teaching of Aboriginal languages within the tertiary sector
- 6. Web-based resources
- 7. Ownership of Course Materials
- 8. Batchelor Indigenous Institute of Tertiary Education
- 9. 2006 Pilot Indigenous Language Teacher Fellowships
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- Web
- International Web Sites
- Terry Ngarritjan-Kessaris and Linda Ford
- Tyikim/Blekbala Perspectives on Language
- Terry
- Linda
- 1. Linda
- 2. Wuwa ngung
- 3. Tyikim/Blekbala perspectives on Indigenous research
- 4. Terry
- 5. Tjykim/Blekbala reflections on experiences and current issues
- References
- Name and Author Index
- Subject Index.