Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Joe Blythe
Margaret Wood
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
12cp at 100 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit aims to give students knowledge of the structure and use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages within contemporary settings, as well as prior to European colonization. Students will study several specific Aboriginal languages in depth, as well as gaining a general knowledge of the linguistic prehistory of Australia, kinship and social organization, language and the land, multilingualism, language maintenance, language contact. Other topics to be covered include Aboriginal sign languages, Aboriginal song, Aboriginal conversation and narrative, language and the law, Aboriginal languages in Education and first language acquisition. Important ethical practices for conducting research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities will be a key focus throughout the unit.
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Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Orthographic transcription | 10% | No | Friday 16 March (week 3) |
Kinship & Social organisation | 10% | No | Friday 30th March (week 5) |
Language contact task | 10% | No | Friday 13th April (week 7) |
Murrinhpatha morphosyntax | 20% | No | Friday 4th of May (Week 8) |
Annotated bibliography | 10% | No | Friday 11th April (week 9) |
Final essay | 40% | No | Friday 8th June (week 13) |
Due: Friday 16 March (week 3)
Weighting: 10%
You will be given an incomplete transcription of a narrative told in an Aboriginal language and an audio recording. You must transcribe the missing segments in order to complete the transcription.
Due: Friday 30th March (week 5)
Weighting: 10%
Analyse a problem relating to kinship and/or social organisation
Due: Friday 13th April (week 7)
Weighting: 10%
Analyse a problem relating to language contact
Due: Friday 4th of May (Week 8)
Weighting: 20%
A Murrinhpatha morphosyntax task.
Due: Friday 11th April (week 9)
Weighting: 10%
In preparation for the final essay, students will write a one paragraph relating to their chosen essay topic, and briefly summarise between 5-10 academic sources.
Due: Friday 8th June (week 13)
Weighting: 40%
Final essay (2000 words)
Delivery
The unit is taught as 2 x 1 hour lectures per week plus a 1 hour tutorial.
The lectures are on Tuesdays @10:00am in C5A Tutorial Room 310 and Thursdays @4:00pm in W5A 205. The tutorial slots follow from the lectures at 11am on Tuesdays in C5A and at 5pm on Thursdays in W5A 205.
There is no set textbook for this unit. A list of readings will be made available via i-learn.
Material covered in this will include the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics of Australian languages and the linguistic prehistory of Australia. There will also be lectures on social and organization kinship, language and the land, multilingualism, language shift and language maintenance, contact induced typological change (including pidgins, creoles and mixed languages), language revitalization and reclamation, Aboriginal sign languages, Aboriginal song, Aboriginal conversation and narrative, language and the law, Aboriginal languages in Education and first language acquisition.
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This is a new unit for 2018.