Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729075X
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Book Synopsis Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities by : Miriam Meyerhoff

Download or read book Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities written by Miriam Meyerhoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

Going It Alone

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Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855755660
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Book Synopsis Going It Alone by : Robert Tonkinson

Download or read book Going It Alone written by Robert Tonkinson and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.

A Grammar of Gurindji

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110746948
Total Pages : 1214 pages
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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Gurindji by : Felicity Meakins

Download or read book A Grammar of Gurindji written by Felicity Meakins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding nasals. It also has three laterals, two rhotics and three vowels. There are no fricatives and, among the stops, voicing is not phonemically distinctive. One striking morpho-phonological process is a nasal cluster dissimilation (NCD) rule. Gurindji is morphologically agglutinative and suffixing, exhibiting a mix of dependent-marking and head-marking. Nominals pattern according to an ergative system and bound pronouns show an accusative pattern. Gurindji marks a further 10 cases. Free and bound pronouns distinguish person (1st inclusive and exclusive, 2nd and 3rd) and three numbers (minimal, unit augmented and augmented). The Gurindji verb complex consists of an inflecting verb and coverb. Inflecting verbs belong to a closed class of 34 verbs which are grammatically obligatory. Coverbs form an open class, numbering in the hundreds and carrying the semantic weight of the complex verb

Songs from the Stations

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Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743325843
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis Songs from the Stations by : Myfany Turpin

Download or read book Songs from the Stations written by Myfany Turpin and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are perhaps best-known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the Indigenous land rights movement. Many discussions of station life are focused on the harsh treatment of Aboriginal workers. Songs from the Stations portrays another side of life on Wave Hill Station. Amongst the harsh conditions and decades of mistreatment, an eclectic ceremonial life flourished during the first half of the 20th century. Constant travel between cattle stations by Indigenous workers across north-western and central Australia meant that Wave Hill Station became a cross-road of desert and Top End musical styles. As a result, the Gurindji people learnt songs from the Mudburra who came further east, the Bilinarra from the north, the Nyininy from the west, and the Warlpiri from the south. This book is the first detailed documentation of wajarra, public songs performed by the Gurindji people in response to contemporary events in their community. Featuring five song sets known as Laka, Mintiwarra, Kamul, Juntara, and Freedom Day, it is an exploration of the cultural exchange between Indigenous communities that was fostered by their involvement in the pastoral industry.."--Publisher's website.

A Grammar of Bilinarra

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614512744
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Bilinarra by : Felicity Meakins

Download or read book A Grammar of Bilinarra written by Felicity Meakins and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The materials on which this grammatical description is based were collected by the authors over a 20 year period from the last first-language speakers of the language, most of whom have since passed away. Bilinarra is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup of Pama-Nyungan which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa family, which also includes Warlpiri. It is non-configurational, with nominals commonly omitted, arguments cross-referenced by pronominal clitics and word order grammatically free and largely determined by information structure. In this grammatical description much attention is paid to its morphosyntax, including case morphology, the pronominal clitic system and complex predicates. A particular strength of the volume is the provision of sound files for example sentences, allowing the reader access to the language itself.

A Cautious Silence

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Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855755512
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cautious Silence by : Geoffrey G. Gray

Download or read book A Cautious Silence written by Geoffrey G. Gray and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shaped its formation. In his new work, Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline. He argues that to do so, anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life. Thus they were able, and called on, to assist government in the control, development and advancement of Indigenous peoples. Gray aims to help us understand the present organisational structures, and assist in the formulation of anthropology's future role in Australia; to provide a wider political and social context for Australian social anthropology, and to consider the importance of anthropology as a past definer of Indigenous people. Gray's work complements and adds to earlier publications: Wolfe's Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology, McGregor's Imagined Destinies and Anderson's Cultivating Whiteness.

Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268843
Total Pages : 629 pages
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Book Synopsis Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages by : Viveka Velupillai

Download or read book Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages written by Viveka Velupillai and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings, theories on the genesis of pidgins and creoles, as well as discussions on language variation and the sociology of language. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. The book is designed for students of courses with a focus on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, as well as typologically oriented courses on contact linguistics.

Aboriginal History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
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End of an Era

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Publisher : Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis End of an Era by : Ronald Murray Berndt

Download or read book End of an Era written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island. This book was released on 1987 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retrospective analysis of survey of Aboriginal labour on cattle stations, Army Aboriginal Settlements, 1944-46; stations, all owned by Australian Investment Agency (Vesteys), include Wave Hill, Waterloo, Limbunya, Birrundudu, Gordon Downs, Manbulloo, Willeroo; Army Settlements include Katherine Civil Settlement, Manbulloo Army settlement; also Daly River region; inadequacy of diet, starvation; inadequate supplies of drinking, washing water, shelter, educational, medical facilities; infant mortality, birth rate; sexual relations, white men, Aboriginal women; labour recruitment, remuneration; costs to stations for food, clothing, sundries supplied to Aborigines; conduct of white staff, Aboriginal attitudes; responses to report, recommendations.

Australian Aboriginal Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Native Title in Australia

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139449494
Total Pages : 307 pages
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Book Synopsis Native Title in Australia by : Peter Sutton

Download or read book Native Title in Australia written by Peter Sutton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to understand and adapt native title to different contexts and claims has been an ongoing concern for that broad range of people involved with claims. In this book, originally published in 2003, Peter Sutton sets out fundamental anthropological issues to do with customary rights, kinship, identity, spirituality and so on that are relevant for lawyers and others working on title claims. Sutton offers a critical discussion of anthropological findings in the field of Aboriginal traditional interests in land and waters, focusing on the kinds of customary rights that are 'held' in Aboriginal 'countries', the types of groups whose members have been found to enjoy those rights, and how such groups have fared over the last 200 years of Australian history.

White Settlers and Native Peoples

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107502152
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis White Settlers and Native Peoples by : Archibald Grenfell Price

Download or read book White Settlers and Native Peoples written by Archibald Grenfell Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1950, this book compares the impact of white colonialism on the indigenous populations of North America, New Zealand and Australia. Grenfell Price's sensitively-written account does not stint from outlining the failures and abuses perpetrated by white settlers, and the text is illustrated with a number of photographs showing scenes of contemporary 'native' life. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the impact of British colonialism and white views of indigenous populations.

Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II

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Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192186284X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II by : Natasha Fijn

Download or read book Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II written by Natasha Fijn and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "volume arises out of a conference in Canberra on Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies at the National Museum of Australia on 9–10 November 2009, which attracted more than thirty presenters."

The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000248178
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Book Synopsis The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights by : Bain Attwood

Download or read book The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights written by Bain Attwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights is the first book of its kind. Not only does it tell the history of the political struggle for Aboriginal rights in all parts of Australia; it does so almost entirely through a selection of historical documents created by the Aboriginal campaigners themselves, many of which have never been published. It presents Aboriginal perspectives of their dispossession and their long and continuing fight to overcome this. In charting the story of Aboriginal political activity from its beginnings on Flinders Island in the 1830s to the fight over native title today, this book aims to help Australians better understand both the continuities and the changes in Aboriginal politics over the last 150 years: in the leadership of the Aboriginal political struggle, the objectives of these campaigners for rights for Aborigines, their aspirations, the sources of their programmes for change, their methods of protest, and the outcomes of their protest. Through the words of Aboriginal activists, across 150 years, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights charts the relationship between political involvement and Aboriginal identity.

Mankind

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Words for Country

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Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868406282
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Words for Country by : Tim Bonyhady

Download or read book Words for Country written by Tim Bonyhady and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.

Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819904013
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs written by Peter d’Abbs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have continuing relevance to all those concerned with dealing with alcohol-related harms among Aboriginal peoples, These are contextualised in original chapters that recount key events, ideas, and programs. The book is a practical resource for all people and groups concerned with addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol-related harms, both at the community level and at the level of policy-making and administration.