Something's Gotta Change : : Redefining Collaborative Linguistic Research.

• Superior document: Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series
• Author: Woods, Lesley.
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

'Indigenous people are pushing back against more than 200 years of colonisation and rejecting being seen by the academy as 'subjects' of research. A quiet revolution is taking place among many Indigenous communities across Australia, a revolution insisting that we have control over our languages and our cultural knowledge - for our languages to be a part of our future, not our past. We are reclaiming our right to determine how linguistic research takes place in our communities and how we want to engage with the academy in the future. This book is an essential guide for non-Indigenous linguists wanting to engage more deeply with Indigenous communities and form genuinely collaborative research partnerships. It fleshes out and redefines ethical linguistic research and work with Indigenous people and communities, with application beyond linguistics. By reassessing, from an Indigenous point of view, what it means to 'save' an endangered language, Something's Gotta Change shows how linguistic research can play a positive role in keeping (maintaining) or putting (reclaiming) endangered languages on our tongues.'- Taken from publisher's website.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. -- 2. What do we already know? -- 3. The research project. -- 4. What did they say? -- 5. Where too now?