Torres Strait creole

Shnukal, Anna

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511620881.013

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“…AAE also makes use of double subjects, also known as left dislocation or resumptive pronouns, where the subject of a sentence ( my niece and other fellas in Example 6) is followed by the pronoun standing for it (Malcolm, 2018, p. 91). This type of ‘double subject’ feature is also documented in Australian Vernacular English (Pawley, 2008, p. 382), Torres Strait Creole (Shnukal, 1991, p. 189) and Kriol (Sharpe & Sandefur, 1977, p. 58).…”

Section: Grammarmentioning

confidence: 69%

Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives

Louro

Collard

2021

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is an enregistered contact‐based variety spoken by 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This paper offers an overview of some of the features that characterise AAE as recorded in our corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Nyungar country, Southwest Western Australia. Led by Nyungar researcher Glenys Collard, our fieldwork rests on three pillars: (1) the data originate from group recording sessions, as culturally appropriate in the community; (2) speakers are recruited in venues such as medical centres and Perth city parks; (3) data collection is based on ‘yarning’: ‘a process of […] communicating and passing on history and knowledge’ (Terszak, 2008, p. 90). Our approach is strongly grounded in indigenous knowledge‐sharing practices. We discuss how the traditional underpinnings of yarning as a culturally entrenched modality have made it possible to tap into the community's vernacular and to capture the urgent concerns and silenced histories of Aboriginal English speakers.

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Section: Grammarmentioning

confidence: 69%

Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives

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Collard

2021

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“…After Federation, White Australia became the rule, resulting in Pacific Islanders being repatriated, excepting those married to Torres Strait women (Mullins :158–9). By the 1930s, however, almost all the remaining Pacific Islanders had died, though as we shall see, not without leaving a cultural legacy in dance and music, as well as the Creole, which is spoken throughout the Strait (Shnukal ).…”

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Taibobo: Dancing over the Oceans, from Rotuma to Torres Strait and Back Again

Mua

Beckett

2014

Oceania

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“…Specific languages are spoken in Torres Strait Islander communities including Standard Australian English, Yumplatok (Creole), Kala Lagaw Ya (Mabuyag) and, Meriam Mir (Osborne 2009 ; Shnukal 2004 ). Kala Kawaw Ya (KKY) is understood to be a dialect of Kala Lagaw Ya (Osborne 2009 ).…”

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“…The traditional languages of the top western and western islands, Kala Lagaw Ya (KKY and Mabuyag) are understood to come from the mainland of Australia, with the eastern island language, Meriam Mir, emerging from Papua New Guinea. Yumplatok, identified as a modern language and stemming from colonisation, is derived from “meshing” both traditional languages and English thus creating a language in its own right (Osborne 2009 ; Shnukal 2004 ). This language is identified as unifying, that is, it is the one that everyone in the Torres Straits can speak, whereas the western traditional language speakers cannot speak and understand the eastern language speakers (Osborne 2009 ; Shnukal 2004 ).…”

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Rich and purposeful mathematical knowledge of mothers and children in a Torres Strait Islander community

Ewing

2014

SpringerPlus

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This paper focuses on a pilot study that explored the situated mathematical knowledge of mothers and children in one Torres Strait Islander community in Australia. The community encouraged parental involvement in their children’s learning and schooling. The study explored parents’ understandings of mathematics and how their children came to learn about it on the island. A funds of knowledge approach was used in the study. This approach is based on the premise that people are competent and have knowledge that has been historically and culturally accumulated into a body of knowledge and skills essential for their functioning and well-being (TIP 31:132, 1992). The participants, three adults and one child are featured in this paper. Three separate events are described with epiphanic or illuminative moments analysed to ascertain the features that enabled an understanding of the nature of the mathematical events. The study found that Indigenous ways of knowing of mathematics were deeply embedded in rich cultural practices that were tied to the community. This finding has implications for teachers of children in the early years. Where school mathematics is often presented as disembodied and isolated facts with children seeing little relevance, learning a different perspective of mathematics that is tied to the resources and practices of children’s lives and facilitated through social relationships, may go a long way towards improving the engagement of children and their parents in learning and schooling.

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Torres Strait creole

Cited by 101 publications

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Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives

Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives

Taibobo: Dancing over the Oceans, from Rotuma to Torres Strait and Back Again

Rich and purposeful mathematical knowledge of mothers and children in a Torres Strait Islander community

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