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The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages - Past, Present and Future (Hardcover)
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The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages - Past, Present and Future (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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.
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