Author: Institute for Aboriginal Development Incorporated (Alice Springs, N.T.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Language Program. Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Picture Vocabulary
Author: Institute for Aboriginal Development Incorporated (Alice Springs, N.T.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Pitjantjatjara/yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary
Author: Paul A. EckertPublisher: Iad Press
ISBN: 9781864650860
Category : Picture dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara are strong Aboriginal languages, spoken every day by about 1,600 people in Central Australia. Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary is the eighth volume in IAD Press's highly acclaimed series of illustrated Aboriginal language dictionaries. These picture dictionaries have proven to be a fantastic resource for school children and their teachers, as well as people wishing to access a language for the first time.
Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Picture Vocabulary
Author: Cliff GoddardHandbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region
Author: Nick ThiebergerPublisher:
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.
Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage
Author: Cliff GoddardPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004357726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages. Applications in language teaching and intercultural education are also covered, along with comparisons between NSM and other leading approaches to linguistic semantics. The book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics at all levels, communication and translation scholars, and anyone interested in a systematic and non Anglocentric approach to meaning, culture and cognition.
OZBIB
Author: Lois CarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary
Author: Anna KennyPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462071
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his German editor Baron Moritz von Leonhardi published as Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (Strehlow 1907–1920) in Frankfurt. Strehlow and his editor had planned to publish a language study that included this comparative dictionary, but it remained unpublished until now due to a number of complicated historical and personal circumstances of the main characters involved with the dictionary. Strehlow’s linguistic work is historically and anthropologically significant because it probably represents the largest and most comprehensive wordlist of Indigenous languages compiled in Australia during the early stages of contact. It is an important primary source for Luritja and Aranda speakers. Both languages are spoken in homes and taught in schools in central Australia. The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language.
The Oxford Handbook of the Word
Author: John R. TaylorPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191669326
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; and word games, puns, and puzzles. Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into the OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon it has started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean knowing its words; and languages are seen to be related by the similarities between their words. Up to the twentieth century linguistic description was mainly an account of words and all the current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say about them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes deliberately increased the richness of their languages by coining or importing new items into their word-hoards. The book presents scholarship and research in a manner that meets the interests of students and professionals and satisfies the curiosity of the educated reader.
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