The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages

The book looks at Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and explores the changing habitat of languages from pre-colonial times to the present. The contributions treat the languages from a structural and functional linguistic perspective, move on to the issue of cultural maintenance and then turn to language policy, planning and the educational and legal dimensions.



Gerhard Leitner, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Ian G. Malcolm, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.