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Western Desert Code: An Australian cryptogrammar
David Rose
PL 513
This volume is a description
of the language of Australia's Western Desert peoples, from
the perspective of Western Desert culture, focusing on what
M.A.K. Halliday has characterised as 'ways of meaning' in
the culture. As a doctoral dissertation The Western Desert
Code received exceptional praise from its examiners, C.M.I.M.
Matthiessen (Macquarie University) called it 'an outstanding
contribution to semiotic and linguistic scholarship in general
and to the description and understanding of Australian Aboriginal
languages in particular…the first contribution ever to give
a comprehensive account of the semiotic complex of an Australian
Aboriginal language-culture, using the resources of a powerful
theory to map out this complex along a number of dimensions…a
monumental, brilliant achievement in absolute terms.… Rose
thus clearly belongs to the class of once-in-a-blue-moon scholars
that Whorf belonged to'. K. Davidse (University of Leeuven)
writes: '…a tremendously inventive effort of interpretation….
I know of no other work which has so consistently related
to the relation between code, register, semantics, lexicogrammar
and phonology as this Ph.D. thesis'.
2001
ISBN: 0 85883 437 5
xvi + 482 pp.
Prices: Australia AUD$59.40
(incl. GST) Overseas AUD$54.00
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