| Title: |
Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi |
| Authors: |
Singer, Ruth |
| Publisher Information: |
Oxford: Taylor & Francis; Routledge, 2026. |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Books; Imported or submitted locally |
| Original Material: |
7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb |
| Subject Terms: |
Sociolinguistic fieldwork; Language maintenance strategies; Ethnographic language study; Language contact dynamics; Small language communities; Intergenerational language transmission; Multilingualism in remote Australian communities; Western Arnhem Land; Arnhem Land; Young Man; Language Ideologies; Eastern Arnhem Land; Receptive Multilingual; Common Language; Language Portraits; Father’s Language; Linguistic Biographies; Remote Indigenous Communities; Clan Estates; Cape York Peninsula; Indigenous Languages; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDM Bilingualism and multilingualism; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoples; thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoples; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics |
| Description: |
This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. Using an ethnographic approach, the book examines what language at Warruwi means in the context of the history of the community, ongoing social and political changes and the continuing importance of ancestral traditions. Children growing up at Warruwi still learn to speak many small Indigenous languages. This is remarkable not just in the Australian context, where many Indigenous languages are no longer spoken, but around the world as this kind of multilingualism in small languages persists only in a few remaining pockets. The way that people use many languages in their daily life at Warruwi reveals how high levels of linguistic diversity can be maintained in a small community. This detailed study of the creation of linguistic diversity is relevant to sociolinguistics, linguistic typology, historical linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. More generally, this book is for linguists, anthropologists and anyone with an interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous lives. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. |
| Document Type: |
book |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-1-00-082988-4; 978-1-00-082990-7; 978-1-00-324436-3; 1-00-082988-X; 1-00-082990-1; 1-00-324436-X |
| Relation: |
Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology |
| DOI: |
10.4324/9781003244363 |
| Access URL: |
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111122 |
| Rights: |
URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Notes: |
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111122 |
| Accession Number: |
edsoap.20.500.12657.111122 |
| Database: |
OAPEN Library |