An overview of Australian traditional languages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. An overview of Australian traditional languages 23
5. Yolngu language habitat: Ecology, identity and law in an Aboriginal society 57
6. Indigenous languages: Transitions from the past to the present 79
7. Language maintenance, shift – and planning 101
8. Linguistic responses to contact: Pidgins and creoles 131
9. Aboriginal English: Restructured variety for cultural maintenance 153
10. Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity 181
11. The Aboriginal contribution to Australia’s language habitat 197
12. Issues and policies in school education 237
13. Bridging the language gap in education 267
14. Aboriginal English in the criminal justice system 299
15. Aboriginal language habitat in research and tertiary education 327
16. Tyikim/Blekbala perspectives on language 355
17. Backmatter 371