The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present and Future

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages

Past, Present and Future

Edited by: Gerhard Leitner and Ian G. Malcolm

Volume 179 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197846

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About this book

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 of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in any of the areas concerned. The collection edited by Leitner and Malcolm fills this gap.

Looking at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and their changing habitats from pre-colonial times to the present, the book covers languages from a structural and functional linguistic perspective, moves on to the issue of cultural maintenance and then turns to language policy, planning and the educational and legal dimensions. Among the many themes discussed are: the social and linguistic history of language contact after 1788 (including the Macassans); the demographic base of indigenous languages; traditional indigenous languages; results of language contact such as the modification of traditional languages and the rise of contact languages (pidgins, creoles, esp. Kriol, Torres Strait Creole, and Aboriginal English); the impact of the Aboriginal languages on mainstream Australian English; maintenance, shift, revival and documentation of indigenous and contact languages; language planning; language in education; language in the media; language in the law courts.

The contributors are leading experts in their fields. The book can serve as a reader for university courses but also as a state-of-the-art work and resource for specialists like applied linguists or educational planners.

Author / Editor information

Gerhard Leitner, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Ian G. Malcolm, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.

Reviews

"The book is well organized, the contributors are experts in the field, and their chapters are well documented with references and statistical data. [...] This is another contribution to the series Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs."
Robert N. St. Clair in:Language Problems and Language Planning 3/2008

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Gerhard Leitner and Ian G. Malcolm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
An overview of Australian traditional languages Harold Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Yolngu language habitat: Ecology, identity and law in an Aboriginal society Michael Christie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Indigenous languages: Transitions from the past to the present Michael Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Language maintenance, shift – and planning Graham McKay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Linguistic responses to contact: Pidgins and creoles John Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Aboriginal English: Restructured variety for cultural maintenance Ian G. Malcolm and Ellen Grote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity Farzad Sharifian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Aboriginal contribution to Australia’s language habitat Gerhard Leitner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Issues and policies in school education Gary Partington and Ann Galloway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Bridging the language gap in education Ian G. Malcolm and Patricia Königsberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Aboriginal English in the criminal justice system Diana Eades Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Aboriginal language habitat in research and tertiary education Rob Amery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Tyikim/Blekbala perspectives on language Terry Ngarritjan-Kessaris and Linda Ford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Experts of General LInguistics and Typology, of English Studies (especially Ethnic Varieties), of Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Speaking, of Educational Linguistics and Language Planning
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 389
Keywords: Australia /language

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197846

Hardcover

Published: January 17, 2007
ISBN: 9783110190793