The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement

The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement
Author: Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527542556

This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In the examination of the discourse (and accompanying paratextual features when present), the contributors make use of qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to identify the manner in which the knowledge disseminators of the time adapted, created and exploited the language of the genre in which they were communicating to inform or persuade contemporary readers. The chapters focus, in particular, on six genres: namely, print news, manuscript correspondence, journals, dictionaries, travel books and geography schoolbooks. Knowledge dissemination is mediated through these six different genres, but, in each case, the genre in question conveys three common aspects of knowledge dissemination: the factual, the personal and the ideological. The focus is, as such, on how domain-specific knowledge is mediated in specialized and popularizing discourse in order to address different stakeholders.

The Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland

The Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland
Author: Henry Ling Roth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1908
Genre: Mackay Region (Qld.)
ISBN:

Social organization of area tribes; two class divisions; kinship terms, death rites, disposal of dead; description of implements and ornaments; brief contacts made by Captain Mackays expedition.