Indigenous language and social identity
Subtitle: papers in honour of Michael Walsh
By: edited by Brett Baker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics
Series: Pacific linguistics -- 626
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780858836181
Subjects: Languages; Group identity; Festschriften; Social aspects; Aboriginal Australians; Language and culture
Description: For almost 40 years, Michael Walsh has been working alongside Indigenous people: documenting language, music and other traditional knowledge, acting on behalf of claimants to land in the Northern Territory, and making crucial contributions to the revitalisation of Aboriginal languages in NSW. This volume, with contributions from his colleagues and students, celebrates his abiding interest in and commitment to Indigenous society with papers in two broad themes. 'Language, identity and country' addresses the often complex relations between Aboriginal social groups and countries, and linguistic identity. In 'Language, identity and social action' authors discuss the role that language plays in maintaining social identities in the realms of conversation, story-telling, music, language games, and in education. 'Language and Social Identity in Australian Indigenous Communities' will be of interest to students of linguistics, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and sociology.
Notes: Edited by Brett Baker, Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Rod Gardner ... [et al.]; title: 2. Michael Walsh : a personal reflection / Ros Fraser; title: 3. Place and property at Yintjingga/Port Stewart under Aboriginal Law and Queensland Law / Bruce Rigsby and Diane Hafner; title: 4. Linguistic identities in the eastern Western Desert : the Tindale evidence / Peter Sutton; title: Juwaliny : dialectal variation and ethnolinguistic identity in the Great Sandy Desert / Sally Dixon; title: 6. Who were the 'Yukul'? and who are they now? / Brett Baker; title: 7. Colonisation and Aboriginal concepts of land tenure in the Darwin region / Mark Harvey; title: 8. Aboriginal languages and social groups in the Canberra region : interpreting the historical documentation / Harold Koch; title: 9. The Kuringgai puzzle : languages and dialects on the NSW Mid Coast / Jim Wafer and Amanda Lissarrague; title: 10. Dawes' Law generalised : cluster simplification in the coastal dialect of the Sydney language / David Nash; title: 11. Space, time and environment in Kala Lagaw Ya / Lesley Stirling; title: 12. Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations / Ilana Mushin and Rod Gardner; title: 13. Laughter is the best medicine : roles for prosody in a Murriny Patha conversational narrative / Joe Blythe; title: 14. Collaborative narration and cross-speaker repetition in Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u / Clair Hill; title: 15. Co-narration of a Koko-Bera story : giants in Cape York Peninsula / Paul Black; title: 16. A tale of many tongues : documenting polyglot narrative in north Australian oral traditions / Nicholas Evans; title: 17. Trading in terms : linguistic affiliation in Arandic songs and alternative registers / Myfany Turpin and Jenny Green; title: 18. Social identity and recurrent themes in the Djanba repertory / Nicholas Reid; title: 19. Encounters with genre : apprehending cultural frontiers / J.R. Martin and David Rose; title: 20. Language disguise in OT : reversing and truncating / Toni Borowsky; title: 21. Sense individualism and syntactic optionality / Nick Riemer; title: 22. Maintaining languages, maintaining identities : what bilingual education offers / Jane Simpson, Jo Caffery and Patrick McConvell.