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Writing on the Backs of the Blacks: literacy, Creole and Language Change in the Northern Territory of Australia
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Writing on the Backs of the Blacks: literacy, Creole and Language Change in the Northern Territory of Australia
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1993
Writing on the Backs of the Blacks: literacy, Creole and Language Change in the Northern Territory of Australia
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Writing on the Backs of the Blacks
Writing on the Backs of the blacks: Voice, Literacy and Community in Kroil Fieldwork
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University of Queensland Press
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1996
Z1933572
1996
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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. '
Subjects:
- Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
- Daly Waters, Mataranka - Tennant Creek area, Central Northern Territory, Northern Territory,
- Barunga, Batchelor - Katherine area, Top End, Northern Territory,
- Daly River, Daly River - Wadeye area, Top End, Northern Territory,
- Ngukurr, Roper River area, East Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
- Aboriginal Kriol Included in AIATSIS, but with no ref. number language
