Warrabarna Kaurna! : reclaiming an Australian language / Rob Amery
- Bib ID:
- 577569
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Amery, Rob, 1954-
- Description:
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- Exton, (PA) : Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, 2000
- p. cm.
- ISBN:
- 9026516339
- Summary:
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"Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language is a longitudinal study of the reclamation of the Kaurna Language, where Kaurna people are working in collaboration with linguists and educators. The book takes an ecological perspective to trace the history of Kaurna, drawing on all known sources (mostly from the period 1836-1858) and all known emerging uses in the modern period (1989-1997)."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Locating the Study
- Ch. 2. Language Reclamation
- Ch. 3. An Ecological Approach to Language Revival
- Ch. 4. A Sociolinguistic History of Kaurna
- Ch. 5. Kaurna Sources
- Ch. 6. Restoring and Transforming the Kaurna Language
- Ch. 7. Kaurna Language Programs
- Ch. 8. Kaurna in Society
- Ch. 9. Kaurna Language Revival: The Formulaic Method
- Ch. 10. Sociopolitical Dimensions of Kaurna Language Revival
- Ch. 11. Summary and Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Kaurna language -- Revival
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Languages -- Revival
- Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- Kaurna language (L3) (SA SI54-09)
- Kaurna people (L3) (SA SI54-09)
- Education - Language
- Language - Maintenance
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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