Writing on the backs of the blacks / Mari Rhydwen
- Bib ID:
- 1113361
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rhydwen, Mari
- Description:
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- St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1996
- x, 185 p. : map ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702228907
- Summary:
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Revision of Ph.D. thesis; addresses questions of ethics of researching another culture; analyses written attitudes to literacy; traces development of Kriol, attitudes to its use in bilingual education in Northern Territory and how Summer Institute of Linguistics linguists have viewed it; examines language attitudes and choices at Ngukurr, Barunga and Nauiyu Nambiyu (Daly River); compares Kriol, Daly creole and Ngangityemerri phonologies in relation to orthographies; shows how literacy is used in newly literate communities by examining representation of prosody and code-switching between English and Kriol in texts; through stories ex plores intuitions on Kriol and identity, variety of Kriol speakers and occasions Kriol is used; concludes that Kriol literature has a doubtful future.
- Notes:
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- "Voice, literacy and community in Kriol fieldwork"--Cover.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [175]-180.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Education -- Northern Territory
- Education, Bilingual -- Northern Territory
- Kriol language -- Northern Territory
- Literacy -- Northern Territory
- Education - Language - Bilingual
- Language - Change
- Barundji people (NSW SH55-05)
- Barundji language (NSW SH55-05)
- Language - Kriol
- Education - Language - Literacy
- Language - Sociolinguistics
- Ngangiwumirri / Ngangumiri people (N17) (NT SD52-12)
- Research - Ethics
- Ngangiwumirri / Ngangumiri language (N17) (NT SD52-12)
- Language - Linguistics - Phonology and phonetics - Orthography and spelling
- Barunga / Bamyili (NT Top End Upper Roper SD53-09)
- Daly River (NT Top End SD52-08)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Ngukurr (NT Top End Roper SD53-10)
- Daly Waters (North NT SE53-01)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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