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Mari Rhydwen Mari Rhydwen i(A80963 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Welsh
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1 2 y separately published work icon Slow Travel Mari Rhydwen , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2004 Z1102778 2004 single work autobiography travel
1 1 y separately published work icon Writing on the Backs of the Blacks Writing on the Backs of the blacks: Voice, Literacy and Community in Kroil Fieldwork Mari Rhydwen , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996 Z1933572 1996 single work non-fiction '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. '
1 y separately published work icon Writing on the Backs of the Blacks: literacy, Creole and Language Change in the Northern Territory of Australia Mari Rhydwen , Sydney : 1993 Z1933567 1993 single work 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 explores intuitions on Kriol and identity, variety of Kriol speakers and occasions Kriol is used; concludes that Kriol literature has a doubtful future. '
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