Description |
viii, 224 pages : illustrations |
Contents |
Australian Aboriginal languages: documentation, description, maintenance and transmission -- The Road less travelled: recording and teaching Aboriginal languages in Western Australia / Nicholas Thieberger -- Nouns and nominals in Wunambal / Eric Vasse -- Linguistics in the education of speakers of Aboriginal languages: the first decade of the School of Australian Linguistics / Graham McKay -- Aboriginal languages and national identity / Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt -- Issues in language planning in Australia: Culture and communication: some critical reflections / Laksiri Jayasuriya -- The lexicographer as prophet / Arthur Delbridge -- Official and unofficial language planning in Torres Strait / Anna Shnukal -- The problem of the transparency of Kriol / John Sandefur -- Educational sociolinguistics: towards a better accommodation to linguistic difference : Schoolchildren as sociolinguistic researchers / Jenny Cheshire -- Ethnopoetics and sociolinguistics: three stories by African-American children / Dell Hymes -- The relevance of the ethnography of communication to the language teacher / Ian G. Malcolm -- Interference and universals in the acquisition of English: a comparison of basilectal Singaporean English and Western Australian Aboriginal children's English / John Platt -- Trying to do things with letters: letters of request and complaint in the university domain / Michael Clyne |
Summary |
Sections on documentation, description, maintenance and transmission of Australian Aboriginal languages, issues in language planning and in educational sociolinguistics |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Culturally sensitive |
Subject |
Kaldor, Susan.
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Wunambal language K22.
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Wunambal language (K22) (WA SD51-12)
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Religions - Christianity - Catholic Church.
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Religions - Christianity - Missionaries.
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Language - Change.
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Language - Maintenance.
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Language - Bilingualism and multilingualism.
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Language - Kriol.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
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Australian languages.
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Language and culture.
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Linguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Author |
Malcolm, Ian.
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Edith Cowan University. Institute of Applied Language Studies
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LC no. |
93138443 |
ISBN |
0729801136 |
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9780729801133 |
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