Publications

Publication details [#39633]

Pensalfini, Rob. 2004. Eulogizing a language: the Ngarnka experience. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 168 : 141–156.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language death | language shift

Language as a subject

Ngarnka

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper describes some of the challenges related to the study of the Ngarnka language, a language of central northern Australia, during and after the ﬁnal stages of its death in the late 1990's, and investigates some of the possible reasons for, and influence of, this kind of work.