"Brainwash from English"? Barunga Kriol speakers' views on their own language

Ponsonnet, Maia

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"Brainwash from English"? Barunga Kriol speakers' views on their own language

Date

2011

Authors

Ponsonnet, Maia

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Abstract

This article deals with the sociolinguistics of Kriol, an English-lexifier creole widely used among Aboriginal people in the north of the Northern Territory in Australia. Some views and ideologies about their own language expressed by four first-language