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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Michael Walsh, Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia, 1993
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A series of studies of aspects of language and culture in different parts of Aboriginal Australia. It includes ?language ownership?, historical aspects and how Aboriginal languages are now being used in media and education.Maps, word listssociolinguistics, linguistics, social history -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Donald Laycock, Linguistic trends in Australia : papers presented to the A.I.A.S. Linguistics Group May 1968, 1970
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Various authors: technical linguistic studies of genetic classification of Australian languages, Daly family languages, and some language-specific notes on South Australian languages.Maps, word listsdaly, gugada, wirangu, dieri, tyemeri, mulluk, linguistics, grammatical theory, phonology, -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Joseph Lo Bianco, Australian policy activism in language and literacy, 2001
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy presents the dynamics of language and literacy policy activism in Australia by capturing accounts of many of those most deeply engaged in Australia?s distinctive practice of Language and Literacy policy-making and its effects. This book describes how policy texts came about. 1. From policy to anti-policy: how fear of language rights took policy-making out of community hands /? Joseph Lo Bianco 2. Australia's language /? Paul Brock 3. Politics, activism and processes of policy production: adult literacy in Australia /? Rosie Wickert 4. Although it wasn't broken, it certainly was fixed: interventions in the Australian Adult Migrant English Program 1991-1996 /? Helen Moore 5. Advocating the sustainability of linguistic diversity /? Michael Singh 6. The cost of literacy for some /? Anthea Taylor 7. (E)merging discourses at work: bringing together new and old ways to account for workplace literacy policy /? Geraldine Castleton 8. The melody changes but the dance goes on - tracking adult literacy education in Western Australia from 'learning for life' to 'lifelong learning': policy impacts on practice 1973-1999 /? Margaret McHugh, Jennifer Nevard and Anthea Taylor 9. Sleight of hand: job myths, literacy and social capital /? Ian Falk 10. National literacy benchmarks and the outstreaming of ESL learners /? Penny McKay 11. Open for business: the market, the state and adult literacy in Australia up to and beyond 2000 /? Peter Kell 12. Inventiveness and regression: interpreting/?translating and the vicissitudes of Australian language policy /? Uldis Ozolins 13. Deafness and sign language in government policy documents 1983-1990 /? Des Power 14. Imprisoned by a landmark narrative? Student/?teacher ratios and the making of policy /? Merilyn Childs 15. Ideologies, languages, policies: Australia's ambivalent relationship with learning to communicate in 'other' languages /? Angela Scarino and Leo Papademetre 16. Reconciled to what? Reconciliation and the Norther Territory's bilingual education program, 1973-1998 /? Christine Nicholls 17. Sing out that song: the textual activities of social technologies in an Aboriginal community /? Jack Frawley.language activism, linguistic diversity, adult literacy, education, sign language, reconciliation, esl programs -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, The Macquarie Library, Macquarie Aboriginal naming book : an Australian guide to naming your home or boat, 1996
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...An English-Aboriginal word list for the purpose of naming houses or possessions - information is derived from ?Macquarie Aboriginal Words? and includes source languages for words.word listsbundjalung, datiwuy, diyari, eastern arrernte, gooniyandi, kaurna, meryam mir, murrinh-patha, ngiyampaa, nyungar, paakantyi, torres strait creole, wemba wemba, wik-mungkan, wiradjuri, yindjibarndi -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Ian Malcolm et al, Aboriginality and English : report to the Australian Research Council, 1997
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ..."The relation of Aboriginality to English has important implications for communication between Aborigines and other Australians, and especially for the education of Aboriginal and other Australian children within a context of reconciliation." Executive summary "The relationship between Aboriginal English and Australian English requires an appropriate educational response, and the report concludes by providing the rationale for two way bidialectal education which is the best way in which Aboriginality and English may thrive together within a schooling which will relate meaningfully to a life experience in which both English dialects have an important place". Executive summaryword lists, tableslinguistics, education, reconciliation, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aldo Massola, Aboriginal place names of south-east Australia and their meanings, 1968
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A first attempt to make a complete collection of all recorded Aboriginal names of towns, shores, homesteads, rivers, swamps, mountains and other natural features of south-east Australia. Gives meanings.word listsvocabulary, word lists, south east australian languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, John Mathew, Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages, 2005
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Original text of comprehensive detail of Mathew?s observations and theories on Origin of Species of Aboriginal People, Traditional Lifestyles, Art and Social Customs. Includes maps and word lists and meanings. -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Patrick McConvell, Archaeology and linguistics : Aboriginal Australia in global perspective, 1997
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Various authors: studies of wider patterns in Aboriginal language and culture, including migration, tool exchange, and particularly the role of linguistic evidence in establishing historical connections between Australian tribes as well as further afield in the Australasian region.B&w illustrations, b&w photographs, maps, word listsanthropological linguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, G Millar, Working papers in linguistics, 1979
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Thesaurus, 1997
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A guide for library staff cataloguing, so tat culturally appropriate terms are used which enable researchers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues greater access to information.Glossarysubject headings, thesaurus, aboriginal and torres strait islanders -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Eve Mumewa D Fesl, A guide for Koorie community Language centres
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Looking at maps and word lists that record the use of languages and dialects in the areas. Gives tips for recording languages and language lists.Maps, word listskulin, ganai, wadi wadi, wemba wemba, wergaia, yorta yorta, dadi dadi -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Daniel Nettle et al, Vanishing voices : the extinction of the world's languages, 2000
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Looking at vanishing languages from around the world and what can be done to prevent it.B&w illustrations, b&w photographs, mapslinguistics, endangered languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, W J Oates, A revised linguistic survey of Australia, 1970
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Lists languages under areas and language classification; records location, previous research, degree of urgency of research and assessment of total linguistic knowledge; index of variant language names.Mapslinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, D Victoria Rau et al, Documenting and revitalizing Austronesian Languages, 2007
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Part 1: International capacity building initiatives, Part 2: Documentation and revitalization Activities, Part 3: Computational methods and tools for language documentation.Maps, b&w photographs, tableslanguage and elearning, endangered languages, austronesian languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aboriginal place names and their meanings, 1994
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Lists place names and gives simple meanings. Designates which State the word comes from.word listsplace names, word lists, linguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal words of Australia, 1994
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Provides word list, no meanings and does not define which language it isWord lists, b&w illustrationslinguistics, language dictionaries -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aboriginal words and place names, 1982
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...B&w illustrations, word listsplace names, word lists, linguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Mari Rhydwen, Writing on the backs of the blacks, 1996
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...The author has set out to study the effects of newly developing literacy on a predominantly oral society. She persuasively argues for an awareness of the dangers of denying a voice to the very people who are the objects of such linguistics research.Mapsbilingual education, kriol, ethics and research -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Suzanne Romaine, Language in Australia, 1991
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...The book describes the way politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders if national movements and others try to influence our use of language. It is argued that language planning is never attempted of its own sake, rather it is carried out for the attainment of non-linguistic ends.Maps, tables, word listssociolinguistics, linguistics, linguistics in australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Annette Schmidt, The loss of Australia?s Aboriginal Language heritage, 1993
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Overviews Aboriginal language situation; examines attitudes to language; analyses language maintenance and revival programs, bilingual education, effectiveness of funding and National Aboriginal Languages Program; availability of linguistic training, characteristics of language loss and the place of creoles in language programs.Maps, chartslanguage loss, language maintenance, reports -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, P W Schmidt, Die Personalpronomina in den australischen Sprachen, 1919
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Language notes, in German P.W.Schmidt, on the development of the Aboriginal Languages.german text, australian languages, pronouns -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Susanne Hargrave, Language and culture. Work papers of SIL-AAB, Series B, Volume 8, 1982
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Six papers on the relationship of language and culture in the Australian Aboriginal context are presented. "Some Thoughts on Yanyuwa Language and Culture" by Jean Kirton gives an overview of some language-culture relationships and examines seven kinds of possession in one language. "Nyangumarta Kinship: A Woman's Viewpoint" by Helen Geytenbeck outlines kinship and its terminology as learned by a field linquist for her work with this group. In "A Description of the Mathematical Concepts of Groote Eylandt Aborigines," Judith Stokes describes an Anindilyakwa mathematical language in its cultural context, refuting popular generalizations about the limited counting ability of the Aboriginal people. "Facts and Fallacies of Aboriginal Number Systems" by John Harris criticizes anthropologists' and linguists' neglect of and bias concerning existing data about the mathematics of Aboriginal groups. In "Aboriginal Mathematical Concepts: A Cultural and Linguistic Explanation for Some of the Problems," Barbara Sayers suggests that the mathematical problems of some Aboriginal schoolchildren are real, but have a cultural rather than linguistic basis. "A Report on Colour Term Research in Five Aboriginal Languages" by Susanne Hargrave describes and presents preliminary analyses from a research project on color terminology.B&w illustrationslinguistics, language and culture, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Wordlist for Australian languages, 1987
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A tool for recording Aboriginal languages in a fieldwork situation - list of English words for which Aboriginal equivalents are to be elicited.word lists, linguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Nick Thieberger, Macquarie Aboriginal words, 2007
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A non-technical introduction and survey of seventeen Australian languages from across the continent; various authors. Simple grammatical information and wordlists organised by meaning. Introduction describing characteristics of Australian languages and relationship to kinship systems, address list of language centres, each language chapter has introduction, notes on wordlist, spelling and pronunciation, grammar and extensive wordlist in 26 or more categories; language index and English index; chapters annotated separately.Word lists, mapslinguistics, glossaries, vocabularies -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Nick Thieberger, Macquarie aboriginal words, 1995
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Word lists, mapslinguistics, word lists -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, S A Wurm, Linguistic fieldwork methods in Australia, 1969
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A survey of various methods of conducting linguistic research with Aboriginal people in traditional contexts, especially elicitation techniques.linguistics, linguistic fieldwork -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, George Yule, The study of Language, 2006
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Issues in language study: origin of language, animals & human language, writing, phonetics, phonology, words & word-formation processes, morphology, grammar, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language and the brain, language acquisition, gestures and sign languages, languages and regional variation, language and social variation, language and culture.B&w illustrations, b&w photographs, mapslinguistics, sociolinguistics, history and language -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Barry Blake, The Warrnambool language : a consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool area of the western district of Victoria based on nineteenth century sources, 2003
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A consolidated account of the Warrnambool language of the Western District of Victoria based on early sources. It is intended to serve as a convenient reference guide for the Aboriginal people of the Warrnambool area and for all researchers.Maps, tables, word listswarrnambool, bunganditj, buwandik, colac, dhudhuroa, djadjawurrung, eastern kulin, western kulin, kulin, gippsland language, woiwurrung, thagungwurrung, kurnkupanut, language revival, endangered languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Barry J Blake, Wathawurrung and the Colac language of southern Victoria, 1998
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Technical linguistic grammar of Wathawurrung and the Colac Language. Includes a classification of Victorian languages and an English glossary for both languages with suggested phonetic transcriptions.maps, word listswathaurong, wada wurrung, watjawurrung, wathawurrung, gulidjan, tjapwurrung, djab wurrung, bunganditj, buandig, western victorian language, warrnambool language, central victorian language, colac, geelong, ballarat, barry blake, ian clark, sharnthi krishna-pillay, julie reid -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Barry J Blake, Dialects of Western Kulin, Western Victoria : Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung, Djadjawurrung, 2011
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Technical linguistic grammar based on historical sources of Western Kulin languages Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung and Djadjawurrung. Includes dictionary and information on historical source material.Maps, b&w illustration, tables,yartwatjali, tjapwurrung, djadjawurrung, western district, george augustus robinson, edward stone parker, william thomas, james dawson, edward curr, robert hamilton matthews