Warraparna Kaurna! : : reclaiming an Australian language / / by Rob Amery.

This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the e...

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Place / Publishing House:Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Australian
Series:Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 350 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Locating the study
  • 2. Language reclamation
  • 3. An ecological approach to language revival
  • 4. A sociolinguistics history of Kaurna
  • 5. Kaurna sources
  • 6. Restoring and transforming the Kaurna language
  • 7. Kaurna language programs
  • 8. Kaurna in society
  • 9. Kaurna language revival : the formulaic method
  • 10. Sociopolitical dimensions of Kaurna language revival
  • 11. Into the twenty-first century : developments since 2000
  • 12. Summary and conclusions.