The art of recognition: Visualising contact languages with community vernacular language posters

dc.contributor.authorAngelo, Denise
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Henry
dc.contributor.authorYeatman, Bernadine
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-12T00:23:47Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-12-20T07:45:58Z
dc.description.abstractAcross Australia, language contact has shpaed the languages that many Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander people speak today. While in some communities Traditional Languages have been spoken continuously from pre-invasion through to the present day, the language use of many First Nations Australians has shifted to "New Languages", which are contact languages such as creoles and mixed languages, or otherwise to a variety of English. Despite the extent of language contact and its effects on the day-to-day language experiences of many Indigenous Australians, there is little discourse in the public domain or in educational settings about language contact or contact languages. In public data sets they are not reliably differentials from Traditional Languages on the one hand, nor from English(es) on the other (Angelo et al., 2019). This has profound implications for Indigenous Australians who speak these New Languages, some of which constitute the largest languages that are spoken almost exclusively by First Nations people today. There is no systematic policy effot underway to work with communities to describe, recognise and name these New Languages, and consequently little tailoring of services to speakers on account of these languages. This paper presents a grounded translational research methodology, Community Vernacular Language Posters (Department of Education [Qld], 2018), that has been developed or working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members to raise awareness about their local contact language and about the ramifications for education and other service provision. The outcome of this linguistically-informed process is an accessible poster depicting local everyday ways of talking. Underpinning this document is the shared body of knowledge amongst community participants that has been generated by the many consultations and inclusive discussions that have taken place due to collaborative language research process. Often, a Community Vernacular Language Poster project has resulted in a community initiative to name their local contact language. The posters have proven a popular initiative, as they make tangible a community's speech variety, foster a sense of pride and ownership in the local vernacular and provide the community with tools for informing incomers and the local language situation.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/204025
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dc.provenanceThe publisher permission to archive the version was granted via email, archived in ERMS6091360
dc.publisherAustralian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations Inc.
dc.rights© 2019 AFMLTA and individual authors
dc.sourceBabel
dc.titleThe art of recognition: Visualising contact languages with community vernacular language posters
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1&2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage40en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage34en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationAngelo, Denise, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFraser, Henry, Queensland Department of Education and Trainingen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationYeatman, Bernadine, University of Queenslanden_AU
local.contributor.authoremaildenise.angelo@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidAngelo, Denise, u5580206en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200319 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languagesen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200401 - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen_AU
local.identifier.absseo950201 - Communication Across Languages and Cultureen_AU
local.identifier.absseo939901 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Educationen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9803255xPUB2555en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume54en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9803255en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.afmlta.asn.au/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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