TY - JOUR
T1 - “We talk in saltwater words”
T2 - Dimensionalisation of dialectal variation in multilingual Arnhem Land
AU - Vaughan, Jill
N1 - Funding Information:
Sincere thanks to Maningrida community, and especially to Abigail Carter, Doreen Jinggarrabarra, Cindy Jin-marabynana, Rebecca Baker, Joseph Diddo, Alistair James, Stanley Djalarra Rankin, Mason Scholes and Jessie Webb. Thanks also to Margaret Carew, Felicity Meakins, Ruth Singer, Rebecca Green and Gillian Wigglesworth for useful conversations along the way, and to the participants in the 2016 American Anthropological Association symposium ‘Evidence of ‘Pre-existing’ Multilingual Ecologies in Contemporary Indigenous Language Ideologies and Practices', where this special issue began. This work has been funded since 2015 by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (C.I. Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland, grant CE140100041 ), the Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society project (C.I. Terje Lohndal) at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology , and a University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant (C.I. Jill Vaughan).
Funding Information:
Sincere thanks to Maningrida community, and especially to Abigail Carter, Doreen Jinggarrabarra, Cindy Jin-marabynana, Rebecca Baker, Joseph Diddo, Alistair James, Stanley Djalarra Rankin, Mason Scholes and Jessie Webb. Thanks also to Margaret Carew, Felicity Meakins, Ruth Singer, Rebecca Green and Gillian Wigglesworth for useful conversations along the way, and to the participants in the 2016 American Anthropological Association symposium ?Evidence of ?Pre-existing? Multilingual Ecologies in Contemporary Indigenous Language Ideologies and Practices? where this special issue began. This work has been funded since 2015 by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (C.I. Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland, grant CE140100041), the Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society project (C.I. Terje Lohndal) at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology, and a University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant (C.I. Jill Vaughan).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In Arnhem Land, northern Australia, speakers of the Burarra language live and communicate within a highly multilingual and multilectal language ecology. This paper explores how regional ideologies of socio-cultural distinctiveness and unity are projected into the linguistic space at the level of the language (within Maningrida's language ecology), as well as at the level of the lect (in terms of dialects and sociolects within the Burarra language). Drawing from current ethnography, naturalistic interactional and elicited language data, and other existing materials, the paper considers how speakers reproduce and evaluate language-internal variation within a linguistically diverse region. These processes are contextualised within the dynamics of long-term ‘egalitarian’ multilingualism which continue to shape contemporary practices and contemporary means of social meaning-making.
AB - In Arnhem Land, northern Australia, speakers of the Burarra language live and communicate within a highly multilingual and multilectal language ecology. This paper explores how regional ideologies of socio-cultural distinctiveness and unity are projected into the linguistic space at the level of the language (within Maningrida's language ecology), as well as at the level of the lect (in terms of dialects and sociolects within the Burarra language). Drawing from current ethnography, naturalistic interactional and elicited language data, and other existing materials, the paper considers how speakers reproduce and evaluate language-internal variation within a linguistically diverse region. These processes are contextualised within the dynamics of long-term ‘egalitarian’ multilingualism which continue to shape contemporary practices and contemporary means of social meaning-making.
KW - Burarra
KW - Indigenous Australia
KW - Language variation
KW - Multilingualism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044370764&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.langcom.2017.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.langcom.2017.10.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044370764
SN - 0271-5309
VL - 62
SP - 119
EP - 132
JO - Language and Communication
JF - Language and Communication
ER -