Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia
Walsh, Michael1993
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This book provides a series of studies of aspects of language and culture in different parts of Aboriginal Australia.
Main title:
Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia / edited by Michael Walsh
Author:
Imprint:
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1993
Collation:
226 pages illustrations maps
Contents:
Languages and their status in Aboriginal Australia; Structure of Australian Aboriginal Languages; Language contact in early colonial New South Wales 1788-1791; 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; 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
ISBN:
0855752416 (pbk)
Dewey class:
499.15
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4224
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research | History Support Collection | 499.15 LAN | Available |