The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages : : Past, Present and Future / / ed. by Gerhard Leitner, Ian G. Malcolm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Amery, Rob,; Christie, Michael,; Eades, Diana,; Ford, Linda,; Galloway, Ann,; Grote, Ellen,; Harris, John,; Koch, Harold,; Königsberg, Patricia,; Leitner, Gerhard,; Malcolm, Ian G.,; McKay, Graham,; Ngarritjan-Kessaris, Terry,; Partington, Gary,; Sharifian, Farzad,; Walsh, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Leitner, Gerhard,; Malcolm, Ian G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 179
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 p.)

The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian l...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• An overview of Australian traditional
• languages
• Yolngu language habitat: Ecology, identity and law
• in an Aboriginal society
• Indigenous languages: Transitions from the past to
• the present
• Language maintenance, shift – and planning
• Linguistic responses to contact: Pidgins and
• creoles
• Aboriginal English: Restructured variety for
• cultural maintenance
• Aboriginal language habitat and cultural
• continuity
• The Aboriginal contribution to Australia’s language
• habitat
• Issues and policies in school education
• Bridging the language gap in education
• Aboriginal English in the criminal justice
• system
• Aboriginal language habitat in research and
• tertiary education
• Tyikim/Blekbala perspectives on language
• Backmatter