Loss and Renewal : Australian Languages Since Colonisation
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| Title: | Loss and Renewal : Australian Languages Since Colonisation |
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| Description: | Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description. |
| Authors: | Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism--Australia, Immigrants--Australia--Language, Languages in contact--Australia, English language--Influence on foreign languages, Colonization--Social aspects--History, Australian languages--Social aspects |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description. |
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| ISBN: | 9781614518877 9781614518792 9781501501036 9781614518808 |
