More than mere words
Subtitle: essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton
By: edited by Paul Monaghan and Michael Walsh
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Mile End, South Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781743057957; 9781743057551
Subjects: Australian languages; Anthropological linguistics; Aboriginal Australians; Languages; Language and culture; Langues australiennes; Ethnolinguistique; Langage et culture
Description: The contributors reflect on Sutton's important contribution to linguistics and the study of Australian languages. The volume's title captures both the complexity of languages as systems embedded in their social contexts through space and time, and a sense that this celebration of Peter's life and career cannot simply be read as ""mere words""
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half-title page; title: Title page; title: Imprint; title: Contents page 1; title: Contents page 2; title: List of Figures, Maps and Tables; title: Preface; title: Part 1; title: Approaches to language; title: Chapter 1; title: The nexus of anthropology and linguistics in Australia; title: Chapter 2; title: Language ideologies in Central Australia 1890-1910; title: Part 2; title: Language in place; title: Chapter 3; title: Landscape categorisation in two Middle Paman languages; title: Chapter 4; title: Barngarla connection to Lake Torrens; title: Chapter 5; title: Five toas; title: Part 3; title: Language in historical and cultural context; title: Chapter 6; title: Finger on the pulse; title: Chapter 7; title: Peter Sutton and the socio-cultural dynamics of Indigenous Australian multilingualism; title: Chapter 8; title: Junior skin names in Central Australia; title: Chapter 9; title: Revisiting Lamalamic metathesis; title: Chapter 10; title: Wheeled vehicle terminology in Australian languages; title: Part 4; title: Language endangered; title: Chapter 11; title: 'Linguistic social work' and the 'hopeless cause'; title: Chapter 12; title: The Rib (or Areba) of south-western Cape York Peninsula; title: Chapter 13; title: Aboriginal world views even in limited word lists; title: Contributors; title: Index; title: Wakefield Press; title: Back cover.