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1. A small speech community with many small languages: The role of receptive multilingualism in supporting linguistic diversity at Warruwi Community (Australia)

Author

Ruth Singer

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060201 languages & linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Social Psychology, Communication, media_common.quotation_subject, Identity (social science), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Context (language use), 06 humanities and the arts, Language and Linguistics, Indigenous, Linguistics, Speech community, Mode (music), 0602 languages and literature, Multilingualism, Ideology, Sociology, Set (psychology), media_common
Abstract

At Warruwi Community (pop. 400), nine very different Indigenous languages are still widely used, which is unusual in the contemporary Australian Indigenous context. Using the receptive multilingual mode, speakers frequently address one another in different languages. This mode offers speakers of small languages such as Mawng (ca. 400 speakers) an alternative to accommodating to larger languages such as Yolngu-matha (ca. 2000 speakers). Although not unique to Warruwi, receptive multilingual practices are part of a set of “mutually constituting ideologies and practices” (Nakassis, 2016) that co-construct a speech community where many small languages flourish.

Published
2018

2. Indigenous multilingualisms past and present

Author

Jill Vaughan and Ruth Singer

Subjects
060201 languages & linguistics, Linguistics and Language, 060101 anthropology, Social Psychology, Anthropology, Communication, Identity (social science), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 06 humanities and the arts, Language and Linguistics, Indigenous, 0602 languages and literature, 0601 history and archaeology, Sociology
Published
2018

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