Marra and Kriol: the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary
Details:
Title
Marra and Kriol: the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary,
Creator
Dickson, Gregory Francis,
Collection
E-Publications,
PublicationNT,
E-Books,
Date
2015-05,
Location
Roper River Region,
Description
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
"Increasingly, the field of linguistics is highlighting and attending to global patterns of diminishing linguistic diversity but to a significant extent it remains unclear what the loss of a language actually entails in cultural terms. In the Roper River Region of the Northern Territory few Marra people speak their heritage language, shifting almost completely to becoming a Kriol-speaking population. This study considers the Marra language and its speakers and the Kriol spoken by young adults to explore loss and maintenance evidenced in the lexicons of the two languages and cultural and linguistic practices of speakers of both languages." Abstract,
Notes
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University.,
Table of contents
Introduction -- Ethnography and sociohistorical contexts -- Substrate lexical influences on Kriol -- Non-English based Verbs in Kriol -- Kinterms and other ways of referring to people in Marra and Kriol -- Bush medicine knowledge in Marra and Kriol – a first pharmacopeia -- Comparing the knowledge of Kriol speakers and Marra speakers in relation to bush medicine and other ethnobiological domains -- Conclusion -- Appendices 1-12,
Language
English,
Subject
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Roper River Region,
Language maintenance -- Northern Territory -- Roper River Region,
Mara language (Australia),
Kriol,