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Author | : Suzanne Romaine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521339834 |
Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.
Author | : Harold Koch |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110279770 |
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
Author | : R. M. W. Dixon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 2002-11-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521473780 |
Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Author | : R. M. W. Dixon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2011-01-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108017851 |
This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Author | : Harold Koch |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110279770 |
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
Author | : Michael G. Clyne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780521397292 |
Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time, and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of mutlilingualism in business, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society.
Author | : Ian G. Malcolm |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501503162 |
The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regional and social variation, the circumstances of its development, its relationships to other varieties and its foundations in the history, conceptual predispositions and speech use conventions of its speakers. Much recent research on the dialect has been motivated by concern for the implications of its use in educational and legal contexts. The volume includes a review of such research and its implications as well as an annotated bibliography of significant contributions to study of the dialect and a number of sample texts. While Aboriginal English has been the subject of investigation in diverse places for some 60 years there has hitherto been no authoritative text which brings together the findings of this research and its implications. This volume should be of interest to scholars of English dialects as well as to persons interested in deepening their understanding of Indigenous Australian people and ways of providing more adequately for their needs in a society where there is a disconnect between their own dialect and that which prevails generally in the society of which they are a part.
Author | : Anastasia Bauer |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614518971 |
In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the articulatory space surrounding the signers - for grammatical purposes in Yolngu Sign Language.
Author | : S. A. Wurm |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2019-11-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110808293 |
No detailed description available for "Languages of Australia and Tasmania".
Author | : Michael G. Clyne |
Publisher | : University of New South Wales |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780868407272 |
Australia is a country with a wide diversity of languages in a world in which there are more multilinguals than monolinguals. This book explores the paradox of a nation rich in language resources yet characterised by monolingual thinking. It illustrates the ways in which language resources can be consolidated and developed for universal benefit.