Northern Territory: “Brainwash From English”?: Barunga Kriol Speakers’ Views On Their Own ...

Northern Territory: “Brainwash From English”?: Barunga Kriol Speakers’ Views On Their Own Language Maïa Ponsonnet, 2010   This article deals with the sociolinguistics of Kriol, an English-lexifier creole widely used among Aboriginal people in the north of the Northern Territory in Australia. Some views and ideologies about their own language expressed by four first-language Barunga Kriol speakers in a series of speech interactions are presented, and possible interpretations are suggested,...

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