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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2011
      February 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511791994
      9781108025041
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791994
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 350 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Linguistic Anthropology, Other Languages and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    Linguistic Anthropology, Other Languages and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    In the early 1960s, R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were still in daily use, but others were only half-remembered by a single elder. This autobiographical account of fourteen years of research, first published in 1984, paints a fascinating picture of the frontier society that existed in the region nearly fifty years ago. It reveals the difficulties and the excitement of linguistic fieldwork, but most of all it focuses on the people who agreed to work with Dixon and patiently helped him to understand their dauntingly complex languages. They allowed him to record their legends and songs and spent many hours answering his questions; this book is a poignant reminder of the fragility of their ancient culture.

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