Vaughan, Jill and Carter, Abigail (2022) “We mix it up”: Indigenous youth language practices in Arnhem Land. In: Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, pp. 315-336.
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On Australia’s north-central coast, Maningrida community serves as a regional hub for the Indigenous-owned region of Arnhem Land. The Arnhem region is distinguished by a highly diverse language ecology, with dozens of named languages belonging to several distinct language families and strongly oriented to in local language ideologies. Linguistic repertoires in Maningrida typically take in elements from various socially recognised codes: traditional languages as well as localised Englishes, often Kriol (an English-lexified creole spoken across northern Australia), and local alternate sign language systems. Texts and talk in Maningrida are rarely monolingual. Youth culture in Maningrida is characterised by the interacting demands of traditional cultural life and an emergent urban subculture, which increasingly connects to global phenomena. Young speakers/signers are more, and differently, mobile compared to earlier generations, and their language practices are fundamentally implicated in community language change. Many Arnhem Land Elders are concerned that young people are spending less time on traditional country, and connecting less deeply to their languages’ heartland:“when the young people step out from the town and go back to the homelands, they reconnect with their culture and get away from negative influences. A strengthening is present. A healing takes place”(Mayatili and Djanambi Marika, People Culture Environment 2014: 42). Young speakers/signers themselves, however, have different perspectives to offer.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Karya Dosen FS |
| Depositing User: | mr magang UM |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2023 06:47 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2023 07:07 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/4500 |
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