Research Interests
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Dr Petter Naessan

Telephone	+61 8 8313 6092
Position	Research Associate
Email	petter.naessan@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4341
Building	Napier Building
Floor/Room	9 12
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Linguistics

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Research Interests

Indigenous Australian languages, TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) documentation, linguistic vitality and language endangerment, language and culture, language ecology (ethnographic ecology)

Publications

The latest publication (April 2012) is a book co-authored with Antikirrinya elder Ingkama Bobby Brown: Irrititja - the past: Antikirrinya history from Ingomar Station and beyond. Southport, QLD: Keeaira Press.

Here is a list of some of my earlier publications:

- ‘Yankunytjatjara cultural transmission, ceremonial discontinuity and continuity’. Glen Pass & Denise Woods (eds), 2004. Alchemies – Community ExChanges. Undisciplined thoughts, vol. 4, pp. 339-355. Perth: Black Swan Press.

- ‘Review of Harry G. Frankfurt: On bullshit’. Philosophy Now, Issue 53, November-December 2005.

- 'Problems in the study of contact-induced extensive linguistic shift', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 182 (Singles Issue), pp. 135-145, November 2006.

- Some tentative remarks on the sociolinguistic vitality of Yankunytjatjara in Coober Pedy, South Australia’, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 28, No 2, pp. 103-138, October 2008.

- ‘The etymology of Coober Pedy, South Australia’, Aboriginal History, Vol. 34 (December 2010), pp. 217-233.

Files

Fjesbokopplysning - Opplysning.pdf [62.6K] (application/pdf)

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