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This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi
Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It
explores how language use and people's ideas about language are
embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an
ethnographic approach, the book examines what language at Warruwi
means in the context of the history of the community, ongoing
social and political changes and the continuing importance of
ancestral traditions. Children growing up at Warruwi still learn to
speak many small Indigenous languages. This is remarkable not just
in the Australian context, where many Indigenous languages are no
longer spoken, but around the world as this kind of multilingualism
in small languages persists only in a few remaining pockets. The
way that people use many languages in their daily life at Warruwi
reveals how high levels of linguistic diversity can be maintained
in a small community. This detailed study of the creation of
linguistic diversity is relevant to sociolinguistics, linguistic
typology, historical linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. More
generally, this book is for linguists, anthropologists and anyone
with an interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous lives.
This is truly an essential resource for all sewists! Set to be the
new The Art of Manipulating Fabric, Ruth Singer offers a modern
interpretation of fabric manipulation in this book, with hundreds
of full colour diagrams. Discover and explore 150 creative sewing
techniques including pleating, folding, gathering, smocking,
quilting, trapunto and applique. Ruth explains her innovative
variations of these traditional fabric manipulation techniques and
offers inspirational project ideas demonstrating practical
applications to create accessories and home decor. Photographs and
illustrations are included to support the step-by-step instruction
for each technique and all of the techniques can be done by hand or
with a domestic sewing machine without the need for specialist
equipment.
This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi
Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It
explores how language use and people's ideas about language are
embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an
ethnographic approach, the book examines what language at Warruwi
means in the context of the history of the community, ongoing
social and political changes and the continuing importance of
ancestral traditions. Children growing up at Warruwi still learn to
speak many small Indigenous languages. This is remarkable not just
in the Australian context, where many Indigenous languages are no
longer spoken, but around the world as this kind of multilingualism
in small languages persists only in a few remaining pockets. The
way that people use many languages in their daily life at Warruwi
reveals how high levels of linguistic diversity can be maintained
in a small community. This detailed study of the creation of
linguistic diversity is relevant to sociolinguistics, linguistic
typology, historical linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. More
generally, this book is for linguists, anthropologists and anyone
with an interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous lives.
The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng
calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal
classification systems. Mawng's gender system has a strong semantic
basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in
discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized,
creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are
structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of
interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or
cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.
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Mawng Dictionary (Hardcover)
Ruth Singer, Nita Garidjalalug, Rosemary Urabadi, Heather Hewett, Peggy Mirwuma, …
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