A Nyoongar Wordlist

A Nyoongar Wordlist
Author: Peter Bindon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2011
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 9781920843595

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A Nyoongar Wordlist brings together in a single volume several separately published word lists for South-West Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects. Commonly these are now known collectively as 'Nyoongar', which, except for some individual words and short phrases still used in daily conversation, is largely unused. However true this may be for the whole language, there remain several hundred Nyoongar words which are preserved as place names throughout the South-West. As development advances and map revision and editing proceed, it is likely that more Nyoongar words will be used as place names and will be added to various maps of the region. Readers will also find clues to the meaning of geographical and place names throughout WA's South-West.

A Nyoongar Wordlist from the South West of Western Australia

A Nyoongar Wordlist from the South West of Western Australia
Author: Peter Bindon
Publisher: Anthropology Department Western Australian Museum
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1992
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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This publication assembles several separately published word lists from South-West Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects. It is not a dictionary but a basic word list. Two listings in alphabetical order are provided: one of Aboriginal words and one of an equivalent English word or phrase.

South West Central

South West Central
Author: Brenda L. Croft
Publisher: Western Australia State Government
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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Embracing a period of nearly two centuries, South West Central, includes a reproduction of an 1833 ink drawing by Gyallipurt and twenty-first-century digital re-takes on colonial representations by Dianne Jones. In between is a myriad of outstanding visual expressions by Nyoongar artists that reveal their relationships to their communities and traditional lands. Most painfully, they recall the forcing of people from their traditional lands into fringe camps, the destruction of their traditional practices and their being rendered invisible in their own country.

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Author: Claire Bowern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1179
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192558498

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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.

Words from the West

Words from the West
Author: Australian National Dictionary Centre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Compiled by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, this work records the words peculiar to given Australian regional communities.

Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia

Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia
Author: H. Lambers
Publisher: Apollo Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014
Genre: Botany
ISBN: 9781742585642

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"A thorough revision and expansion of Pate and Beard's Kwongan--Plant Life of the Sandplain (1984)"--Page 4 of cover.

Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability

Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability
Author: Aidan Davison
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001-04-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780791449806

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This discussion responds to the work of Langdon Winner, Albert Borgmann, Charles Taylor, Martin Heidegger, David Abram, and others."--BOOK JACKET.

Warraparna Kaurna!

Warraparna Kaurna!
Author: Rob Amery
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1925261255

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This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials. This study is breaking new ground. In the Kaurna case, very little knowledge of the language remained within the Aboriginal community. Yet the Kaurna language has become an important marker of identity and a means by which Kaurna people can further the struggle for recognition, reconciliation and liberation. This work challenges widely held beliefs as to what is possible in language revival and questions notions about the very nature of language and its development.

Western Australia

Western Australia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1998
Genre: Western Australia
ISBN:

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Dramaturgies of Interweaving

Dramaturgies of Interweaving
Author: Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000411206

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Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts. Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people’s experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholars—as well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artists—this book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential. Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theater, performance, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgies of Interweaving opens up an innovative perspective on today’s breathtaking plurality of dramaturgical practices of interweaving in theater, performance, dance, and other arts, such as curation and landscape design.