Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Routledge

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Communications and Arts

RAS ID

17919

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Linguistics on 04 Aug 2014, : Malcolm I.G. (2014). A day in the park: Emerging genre for readers of Aboriginal English. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34(4), 566-580. Available here

Abstract

Despite the fact that varieties of Aboriginal English are widely used in communication in Aboriginal communities across Australia, the use of Aboriginal English in writing has been limited. A significant genre for Aboriginal writers has been the autobiographical narrative. In most published narratives of this genre, Aboriginal English has not been widely used. This paper describes and discusses an autobiographical narrative composed by Aboriginal author Glenys Collard and published by the Western Australian Department of Training and Workforce Development in 2011 in which the only medium of narration (except for utterances by non-Aboriginal characters) is Aboriginal English. Analysis of this text supports the view that Aboriginal English as depicted in metropolitan Perth exhibits significant linguistic and stylistic continuity with Aboriginal discourse in more remote settings. It is suggested that writing for Aboriginal English readership entails the emergence of a distinctive genre.

DOI

10.1080/07268602.2014.929081

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