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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia
Author | : Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110279771 |
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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.
The Languages of Australia
Author | : R. M. W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2011-01-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781108017855 |
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This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Australian Languages
Author | : R. M. W. Dixon,Robert M. W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 2002-11-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521473781 |
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Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.
Languages of Australia and Tasmania
Author | : S. A. Wurm |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2019-11-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110808292 |
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Australian English The National Language
Author | : Gerhard Leitner |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2013-02-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110904871 |
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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.
Community Languages
Author | : Michael G. Clyne |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1991-09-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521397294 |
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Language is a crucial component of national identity, and the acceptance of diverse languages within a society can contribute to social equality. In Australia, a society of immigrants, a continuing tension has existed since the nineteenth century between a desire for monolingualism, often a result of xenophobic policies of enforced assimilation, and an acceptance of multilingualism reflecting increased tolerance. At the present time, without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage. These are often described by the term "community languages". Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current situation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom and where. Community languages: The Australian experience focusses on three main issues:. how languages other than English are maintained in a predominantly English speaking environment;. how the structure of the languages themselves has changed over the years;. how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity, with particular emphasis on Australia's unique National Language Policy. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and realisation of the importance of multilingualism in the commercial world, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in both the shaping and the future of Australian society.
Australian Languages
Author | : Claire Bowern,Harold James Koch |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1588115127 |
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This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages 'different' in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung 'Pama-Nyungan' language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method. Contributions by: B. Alpher; B. Baker; C. Bowern; C. Bowern & H. Koch; G. Breen; L. Campbell; I. Green & R. Nordlinger; L. Hercus & P. Austin; H. Koch; P. McConvell & M. Laughren; L. Miceli; G. O'Grady & K. L. Hale; J. Simpson & L. Hercus.
Australian Languages
Author | : Claire Bowern,Harold James Koch |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027247612 |
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This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages 'different' in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung 'Pama-Nyungan' language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method. Contributions by: B. Alpher; B. Baker; C. Bowern; C. Bowern & H. Koch; G. Breen; L. Campbell; I. Green & R. Nordlinger; L. Hercus & P. Austin; H. Koch; P. McConvell & M. Laughren; L. Miceli; G. O'Grady & K. L. Hale; J. Simpson & L. Hercus.