Description
| Product ID: | 9781032155012 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology |
| Title: | Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi |
| Subtitle: | Cultivating Linguistic Diversity in an Australian Community |
| Authors: | Author: Ruth Singer |
| Page Count: | 178 |
| Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Literary studies: general, Society and culture: general, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Literary studies: general, Society & culture: general, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Australia, Northern Territory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an ethnographic approach, the book examines what language at Warruwi means in the context of the history of the community, ongoing social and political changes and the continuing importance of ancestral traditions. Children growing up at Warruwi still learn to speak many small Indigenous languages. This is remarkable not just in the Australian context, where many Indigenous languages are no longer spoken, but around the world as this kind of multilingualism in small languages persists only in a few remaining pockets. The way that people use many languages in their daily life at Warruwi reveals how high levels of linguistic diversity can be maintained in a small community. This detailed study of the creation of linguistic diversity is relevant to sociolinguistics, linguistic typology, historical linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. More generally, this book is for linguists, anthropologists and anyone with an interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous lives. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-22 |
