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

• Autore: Amery Rob <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Adelaide : , : The University of Adelaide Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 499.15
• Soggetto topico: Kaurna language; Kaurna (Australian people); Aboriginal Australians - Australia - South Australia - Languages; Australian languages - Australia - South Australia; Kaurna language L3
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-337) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials.
• Titolo autorizzato: Warraparna Kaurna
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136404303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II