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Author : Harold Koch Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 523 pages File Size : 11,48 MB Release : 2014-08-19 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 3110279770
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 574 pages File Size : 32,65 MB Release : 2011-01-20 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 1108017851
Author : Harold Koch Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 523 pages File Size : 36,27 MB Release : 2014-08-19 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 3110279770
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time, and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of mutlilingualism in business, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society.
Author : S. A. Wurm Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 212 pages File Size : 41,70 MB Release : 2019-11-18 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 3110808293
Author : Gerhard Leitner Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 412 pages File Size : 22,61 MB Release : 2013-02-06 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 311090487X
Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public. What is it like? How has English changed by being transplanted to other parts of the world? Does the rise of AusE and other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language? Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which Australian English has developed. This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive and integrative approach that anchors English in the entire 'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from national status. The study is of interest for specialists of English and Australian Studies as well as a range of other disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics.
Author : Anastasia Bauer Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 255 pages File Size : 42,56 MB Release : 2014-09-11 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 1614518971
In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the articulatory space surrounding the signers - for grammatical purposes in Yolngu Sign Language.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 780 pages File Size : 30,15 MB Release : 2002-11-14 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 0521473780
Author : Felicity Meakins Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 464 pages File Size : 32,62 MB Release : 2016-04-11 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 1501501038
Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.