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Title Linguistics in the service of society : essays to honour Susan Kaldor / Ian G. Malcolm, editor
Published Perth W.A. : Institute of Applied Language Studies, Edith Cowan University, 1991

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 MELB  306.44 Mal/Lit  AVAILABLE
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.
Wunambal language K22.
Wunambal language (K22) (WA SD51-12)
Religions - Christianity - Catholic Church.
Religions - Christianity - Missionaries.
Language - Change.
Language - Maintenance.
Language - Bilingualism and multilingualism.
Language - Kriol.
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
Australian languages.
Language and culture.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Author Malcolm, Ian.
Edith Cowan University. Institute of Applied Language Studies
LC no. 93138443
ISBN 0729801136
9780729801133