Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia
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Abstract Variationist sociolinguists have now collectively spent decades gathering vernacular language data, enriching linguistic theory through detailed empirical analysis. What the field is yet to offer are reflective accounts of how partnership with communities and participatory research models can begin decolonise field. In this paper we reflect on Indigenous‐led fieldwork that allowed us document Australian Aboriginal English in urban Nyungar country, Southwest Western Australia. We discuss Indigenous leadership choose appropriate data collection methods (the cultural form conversation storytelling known as ‘yarning’). Our analysis premonitory yarns about death youth community reveals a rich performative style which shows linguistically entrenched ties traditional Australia, provides original material for sociolinguistic work has great potential social transformation inclusion epistemologies, ‘hearing voices’ speakers rarely featured research.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sociolinguistics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1360-6441', '1467-9841']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12487