36.161, Books: Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative: David Rose

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Subject: 36.161, Books: Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative: David Rose

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative: David Rose


Title: Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative
Subtitle: Australian Stories
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/languages-of-australias-first-peoples-in-narrative-9781350413894/

Author(s): David Rose

Abstract:

Celebrating the diverse languages of Australia's First Peoples, this
book presents stories told by elders in eighteen languages from around
the continent, and explores their patterns of meaning.
The stories recount the experiences of the tellers and histories of
their communities, from tales of anti-colonial resistance to origin
stories of the Dreaming. The book aims to make the languages
accessible and engaging through the voices of the elders, while
building readers' knowledge about language and language learning. It
opens with some basic language knowledge for reading the stories. Each
chapter then begins with the cultural and historical contexts of the
stories, which are first previewed in English translation, then
presented sentence-by-sentence, setting out the original sounds and
wordings, glossed with plain English. Extracts are selected to
illustrate patterns of meanings that are characteristic of each
language. The final chapter sums up the various meaning patterns the
stories use, and interprets their evolution in the light of First
Peoples' deep histories, as recorded by archaeology and traditional
knowledge.
The book will be useful for language learning programs in communities
and schools, for researchers of language and language teaching, and
for any reader with an interest in the languages and cultures of
Australia's First Peoples.




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