More than Mere Words: Essays on Language and Linguistics in Honour of Peter Sutton
Author(s): Paul Monaghan, Michael Walsh
The contributors to More than Mere Words reflect on Sutton’s important
contribution to linguistics and the study of Australian languages. The first
two chapters give a historical perspective on the study of Australia’s
Indigenous languages.
There follows a section on language as a reflection of connection to
place, and then a set of essays on language in its socio-cultural contexts, spanning prehistory to the present. The final part of the book charts
the consequences of the colonial encounter through a consideration
of language endangerment. The volume’s title captures both the
complexity of languages as systems embedded in their social contexts
through space and time, and a sense that this celebration of Peter’s life
and career cannot simply be read as ‘mere words’.
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- : Wakefield Press Pty, Limited
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- : 01 November 2020
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- : 2008
- : Paperback
- : Paul Monaghan, Michael Walsh