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THE STAFF OF BURWOOD TEACHERS' COLLEGE Report on a Meeting of TM Linguistic Society of Australia On the 27th and 28th of May, 1968, the Linguistic Society of Australia met at the Australian National University. The Linguistic Group of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (a more specialized group) held meetings on the following days. If the people who attended these meetings nearly total the number of Linguists in Australia or at least are fairly repre sentative of them it would seem that there are few Australians engaged in the study of Linguistics. Most academics and research scholars in this field of study are either from Europe or the United States of America. The topics discussed dealt with the two major areas of spoken language and grammatical theory. Papers concerning spoken language, that is, language recorded in the field, included a consideration of the structure of informal conversational speech in Australian English; progress reports on the study of English spoken by Asian students and European immigrants; a summary of the present state of Australian Aboriginal languages; and results of anthropologically oriented linguistic studies. It was made evident that the languages of the Australian Aborigines are dying quickly and must
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Oct 1, 1968
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