Indigenous language and social identity: papers in honour of Michael Walsh

For almost 40 years, Michael Walsh has been working alongside Indigenous people: documenting language, music and other traditional knowledge, acting on behalf of claimants to land in the Northern Territory, and making crucial contributions to the revitalisation of Aboriginal languages in NSW. This volume, with contributions from his colleagues and students, celebrates his abiding interest in and commitment to Indigenous society with papers in two broad themes. ?Language, identity and country? addresses the often complex relations between Aboriginal social groups and countries, and linguistic identity. In ?Language, identity and social action? authors discuss the role that language plays in maintaining social identities in the realms of conversation, story-telling, music, language games, and in education. ?Language and Social Identity in Australian Indigenous Communities? will be of interest to students of linguistics, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and sociology.1. Introduction /? Rod Gardner ... [et al.] -- 2. Michael Walsh : a personal reflection / Ros Fraser . Place and property at Yintjingga / Port Stewart under Aboriginal Law and Queensland Law / Bruce Rigsby and Diane Hafner -- 4. Linguistic identities in the eastern Western Desert : the Tindale evidence / Peter Sutton -- Juwaliny : dialectal variation and ethnolinguistic identity in the Great Sandy Desert / Sally Dixon -- 6. Who were the 'Yukul'? and who are they now? / Brett Baker -- 7. Colonisation and Aboriginal concepts of land tenure in the Darwin region / Mark Harvey -- 8. Aboriginal languages and social groups in the Canberra region : interpreting the historical documentation / Harold Koch -- 9. The Kuringgai puzzle : languages and dialects on the NSW Mid Coast / Jim Wafer and Amanda Lissarrague -- 10. Dawes' Law generalised : cluster simplification in the coastal dialect of the Sydney language / David Nash -- 11. Space, time and environment in Kala Lagaw Ya / Lesley Stirling -- 12. Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations / Ilana Mushin and Rod Gardner -- 13. Laughter is the best medicine : roles for prosody in a Murriny Patha conversational narrative / Joe Blythe -- 14. Collaborative narration and cross-speaker repetition in Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u / Clair Hill -- 15. Co-narration of a Koko-Bera story : giants in Cape York Peninsula / Paul Blac