Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16081
Title: Aboriginal English
Contributor(s): Eades, Diana  (author)
Publication Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1515/9783110279771.417
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16081
Abstract: Aboriginal English is the name given to the dialectal varieties of English spoken by the majority of Aboriginal people throughout Australia. Malcolm (e.g. 2008a) reports that the origins of Aboriginal English varieties are diverse. The most important influence in many regions was the earlier pidgin language known as Aboriginal Pidgin English (also called NSW Pidgin, see Meakins (this volume) for further discussion), which resulted from contact between Aboriginal people in the Sydney area and the British settlers beginning in the late 18th century (see Malcolm 2000c; Troy 1994). Malcolm (2000c) reports that the input for this pidgin language included 18th-century varieties of British English, local Aboriginal languages, and English-based contact language varieties from maritime sources, such as whaling. In parts of northern Australia, Aboriginal English may have developed instead from decreolisation of varieties of the Aboriginal creole language, Kriol. And in some regions Aboriginal English may be the result of the Aboriginalisation of English, without significant influence from pidgin or creole varieties. Malcolm (2008a: 127) explains that the "strong resemblances between Aboriginal English varieties Australia-wide, and their maintenance as distinct from Australian English, suggest that to a large extent convergence has taken place upon an agreed ethnolect."
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide, p. 417-447
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Place of Publication: Berlin, Germany
ISBN: 9783110279696
9783110279771
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
470411 Sociolinguistics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130201 Communication across languages and culture
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/209071474
Series Name: The World of Linguistics
Series Number : 3
Editor: Editor(s): Harold Koch and Rachel Nordlinger
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School of Psychology

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