Table of Contents

Preface; Languages and Their Status in Aboriginal Australia; The Structure of Australian Aboriginal Languages; Language Contact in Early Colonial New South Wales 1788 to 1791; Tasmanian Aboriginal Language: Old and New Identities; Bundjalung: Teaching a Disappearing Language; Language and Culture: Socialisation in a Warlpiri Community; Out-of-the-Ordinary Ways of Using a Language; Classifying the World in an Aboriginal Language; Making Dictionaries; Losing and Gaining a Language: the Story of Kriol in the Northern Territory; Kriol: the Creation of a Written Language and a Tool of Colonisation; The Language of Oppression: the Bolden Case, Victoria 1845; Language and the Law: White Australia v Nancy; Language and Territoriality in Aboriginal Australia; New Uses for Old Languages.

About the Author

Michael Walsh is an honorary associate of linguistics at the University of Sydney.