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Searching for aboriginal languages : memoirs of a field worker
Dixon, Robert M. W. <1939- ; author>
Abstract
In the early 1960s, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were still in daily use, but others were only half-remembered by a single elder.
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This autobiographical account of fourteen years of research, first published in 1984, paints a fascinating picture of the frontier society that existed in the region nearly fifty years ago. It reveals the difficulties and the excitement of linguistic fieldwork, but most of all it focuses on the people who agreed to work with Dixon and patiently helped him to understand their dauntingly complex languages. They allowed him to record their legends and songs and spent many hours answering his questions; this book is a poignant reminder of the fragility of their ancient culture
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| Description | *Searching for aboriginal languages : memoirs of a field worker / R.M.W. Dixon Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s) |
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| Note | Also issued in print: 2011 Originally published: St. Lucia, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1984. Formato pdf - Accesso riservato secondo le condizioni contrattuali https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791994 |
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| ISBN | 9780511791994 | |
| 9781108025041 | ||
| Series | Cambridge library collection. Linguistics | |
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| Publication year | 2011 - 1984 |