| Description |
viii, 103 pages ; 29 cm |
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SIL-AAIB occasional papers, 1036-1243 ; no. 5 |
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SIL-AAIB occasional papers ; no. 5
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| Contents |
Degrees of abstraction and cross-cultural communication in Australia / Margaret S. Bain and Barbara J. Sayers -- Pragmatics and plain speech -- a pragmatic analysis of a failed cross-cultural communication -- a matter of choice: Wik-Mungkan modes of thinking and discourse structure -- Left or right brain: is there a neurological relationship to traditional Aboriginal learning styles -- Aboriginal mathematical concepts: a cultural and linguistic explanation for some of the problems -- The Aboriginal child: aspects of rearing, behaviour and expectations -- When the children don't learn: the value of pre-reading and pre-writing programs -- Implementing Indigenous language programs -- Vernacular language issues: keeping language strong -- Reading with rhythm: a help in tackling long words -- How we talk and how we write -- Combined bibliography -- Publications and presented papers by Barbara J. Sayers |
| Summary |
The papers in this publication result from the author's years of studying and learning the Aboriginal language, Wik-Mungkan, while she lived in the Aurukun community on the Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland between 1962 and 1995. The papers in Part 1 discuss communication issues such as: degrees of abstraction in the language; language structure; left or right brain orientation; and pragmatic isses of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The papers in Part 2 are concerned with the lack of opportunity afforded to children in Aboriginal community schools and the author's efforts to improve learning for Aboriginal children |
| Analysis |
Aurukun (Qld) |
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Australia |
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Queensland |
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Wik-Mungkan |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Education.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Intercultural communication -- Australia.
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Wik-Mungkan language.
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Wik Mungkan people Y57
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Wik Mungkan language (Y57, Y143) (Qld SD54-07)
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Wik Mungkan people (Y57) (Qld SD54-07)
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Education - Language - Indigenous languages
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| Author |
Bain, Margaret
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Sayers, Barbara J.
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Summer Institute of Linguistics. Australian Aborigines and Islanders Branch.
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| ISBN |
0868924377 |
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