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Searching for Aboriginal Languages : Memoirs of a Field Worker by R. M. W. Dixon (1989, Trade Paperback, Reprint)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226154300
ISBN-139780226154305
eBay Product ID (ePID)93798
Product Key Features
Number of Pages342 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSearching for Aboriginal Languages : Memoirs of a Field Worker
Publication Year1989
SubjectMiscellaneous, General, Oceanic & Australian Languages
FeaturesReprint
TypeLanguage Course
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Social Science
AuthorR. M. W. Dixon
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight15 Oz
Item Length7.2 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN89-034383
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal499/.15/09943
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Setting Off 2. "Haven't you got a machine?" 3. "You never talk it to me!" 4. Full of Unforgettable Characters 5. "Time to get back to wife" 6. "Drink this!" 7. "Of course we'll keep in touch" 8. "Doing all these Jalnguy" 9. Lots of Linguistic Expertise 10. "This way be bit more better" 11. "Happiness and fun" 12. "It's not" 13. "Those are good for you" 14. Loss 15. "I think I like that language best" Afterword Pronunciation of Aboriginal Words Tribal and Language Names
SynopsisIn 1963 R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon set off for Australia, where he was to record, chart, and preserve several of the complex and nearly extinct Aboriginal languages. Beginning with his introduction to these languages while a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh and his difficulties in getting to the Australian bush, Dixon's fourteen-year tale is one of frustration and enlightenment, of setbacks and discoveries. As he made his way through northern Australia, Dixon was dependent on rumors of Aboriginal speakers, the unreliable advice of white Australians, and the faulty memories of many of the remaining speakers of the languages. Suggestions of informants led him on a circuitous trail through the bush, to speakers such as the singer Willie Kelly in Ravenshoe, who wanted his recordings sent to the south, "where white people would pay big money to hear a genuine Aborigine sing" and Chloe Grant in Murray Upper, who told tales in four dialects of digging wild yams, of the blue-tongue lizard Banggara, and of the arrival of Captain Cook. Dixon tells of obtaining the trust of possible informants, of learning the customs and terrain of the country, and of growing understanding of the culture and tradition of his subjects. And he explains his surprise at his most unexpected discovery: that the rich oral tradition of the "primitive" Aborigines could yield a history of a people, as told by that people, that dates to almost ten millenia before.
LC Classification NumberPL7091.Q4D59 1989
