Australian Aboriginal English : change and continuity in an adopted language / Ian G. Malcolm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malcolm, Ian G., author.

Series:

Dialects of English ; Volume 16.

Dialects of English, 2164-7445 ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects--Australia.

English language.

English language--Variation--Australia.

Aboriginal Australians--Languages.

Aboriginal Australians.

English language--Australia--Etymology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regional and social variation, the circumstances of its development, its relationships to other varieties and its foundations in the history, conceptual predispositions and speech use conventions of its speakers. Much recent research on the dialect has been motivated by concern for the implications of its use in educational and legal contexts. The volume includes a review of such research and its implications as well as an annotated bibliography of significant contributions to study of the dialect and a number of sample texts. While Aboriginal English has been the subject of investigation in diverse places for some 60 years there has hitherto been no authoritative text which brings together the findings of this research and its implications. This volume should be of interest to scholars of English dialects as well as to persons interested in deepening their understanding of Indigenous Australian people and ways of providing more adequately for their needs in a society where there is a disconnect between their own dialect and that which prevails generally in the society of which they are a part.

Contents:

Australian Aboriginal English in context

Phonics and phonology

Morphosyntax

Lexis and discourse

Schematic structures

History

Cross-cultural communication.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501503160

1501503162

9781501503368

1501503367

OCLC:

1037978221