In: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transcription -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Locating Warruwi -- 1.2 Finding Warruwi: in the Footsteps of the First Missionary -- 1.3 Speakers and Hearers: Tuning in to the Languages of Warruwi -- 1.4 What's Special About Warruwi? -- 1.5 Painting a Picture of Multilingualism at Warruwi -- Notes -- 2 Becoming Warruwi, Becoming Mawng -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Place-Making at Warruwi -- 2.3 Visitors From Makassar: Cultural Exchange in the Trepang Trade -- 2.4 Mobility and Multilingualism in the Macassan Era -- 2.5 Decimation and Recovery: Changes in Population at Warruwi -- 2.6 Language at the Goulburn Island Methodist Mission (1916-1952) -- 2.7 Heather Hewett: a Linguist at Warruwi -- 2.8 The Beginning and End of the Self-Determination Era -- 2.9 The Mawng-English Bilingual Program -- 2.10 Becoming Mawng -- Notes -- 3 Diversity of Peoples and Languages at Warruwi -- 3.1 Manangkardi and Its Mysteries -- 3.2 Languages Spoken at Warruwi -- 3.3 A Linguistic Perspective On Diversity in Western Arnhem Land -- 3.4 Land-Based Social Groups -- 3.5 Language Ownership: Ideology and Practice -- 3.6 The Speech Community -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Stories of Lives and Languages -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Two Sisters, Two Lives: Rosemary Urabadi and Nita Garidjalalug -- 4.3 Richard Dhangalangal and Nancy Ngalmindjalmag: Marrying Across the East-west Divide -- 4.4 Raising Children to Be Speakers of Small Languages -- 4.4.1 Socialising Children to Speak Their Clan Language -- 4.4.2 Socialising New Mothers -- 4.5 Newcomer Spouses' Language Learning -- 4.6 Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 Receptive Multilingualism and Its Alternatives -- 5.1 Communication Among People With Diverse Repertoires.
In: Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology
In: Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology
"This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people's ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an ethnographic approach, the book examines what language at Warruwi means in the context of the history of the community, ongoing social and political changes and the continuing importance of ancestral traditions. Children growing up at Warruwi still learn to speak many small Indigenous languages. This is remarkable not just in the Australian context, where many Indigenous languages are no longer spoken, but around the world as this kind of multilingualism in small languages persists only in a few remaining pockets. The way that people use many languages in their daily life at Warruwi reveals how high levels of linguistic diversity can be maintained in a small community. This detailed study of the creation of linguistic diversity is relevant to sociolinguistics, linguistic typology, historical linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. More generally, this book is for linguists, anthropologists and anyone with an interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous lives"--
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