Anna Shnukal
Biographic Data
| ID | 117294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Shnukal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Shnukal |
| SIGNATURE | SHNUKAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6975-9897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linked lives: A mid-twentieth century Okinawan community on Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Far North Queensland
The last large group of indentured Asian labourers to arrive in Australia disembarked at Thursday Island, North Queensland in 1958. They were imported from US-administered Okinawa, Japan, by master pearlers hoping to restore the fortunes of the ailing pearlshelling industry. In retrospect, the Okinawans’ arrival coincided with the end of the industry and by 1962 only a few remained. This article examines the men’s relations with the remnant Japan…
A Failed Experiment: Okinawan Indents and the Postwar Torres Strait Pearlshelling Industry, 1958–1963
Throughout its European history, Australia has solved recurrent labor shortages by importing workers from overseas. Situated on shipping lanes between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the northern Australian pearlshelling industry became a significant locus of second-wave transnational labor flows (1870–1940) and by the 1880s was dependent on indentured workers from the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Exempted from the racially discriminatory Immigrati…
Navigating Boundaries: The Asian diaspora in Torres Strait
Navigating Boundaries belongs to a new generation of Asian–Australian historical studies. The essays presented here draw on an extensive, widely dispersed body of information, including much unpublished material, in order to narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland. Early chapters give an overview of Torres Strait
The spread of Torres Strait Creole to the central islands of Torres Strait
The following paper outlines the second stage of development of Torres Strait Creole, now the lingua franca, or common language, of Torres Strait Islanders everywhere.2 The first stage, which I discussed in an earlier volume of this journal, was that of the creolisation of Pacific Pidgin English around the turn of the century in three Torres Strait island commu nities.3 In that article, I argued that creolisation was the result of two factors not…
Torres Strait Creole: The growth of a new Torres Strait language
Tracing the history of any language is a complex, many-stranded task that involves the weaving together of both internal linguistic developments and concomitant external -historical, social, economic and political -events. This paper, part of an ongoing study of the history of the English-based creole lingua franca of Torres Strait, briefly discusses a crucial period in its external development: the fifty years between 1890 and 1940
A double exile: Filipino settlers in the outer Torres Strait islands, 1870s–1940s
Surprisingly little has been published about the early Filipinos in northern Australia and their relationships with local Indigenous people, compared with their Japanese, Indonesian and even Chinese contemporaries. Despite their origins in the 19th-century marine industries, each community manifests different characteristics, composition and historical trajectories. Examining the similarities and differences among them sheds light on early Austra…
Aspirational’ Chinese: Achieving Community Prominence on Thursday Island, Northeast Australia
The experience of the Chinese diaspora in Australia has been the subject of much academic attention in the past three decades. The prevailing narrative of the Chinese presence, which dates from early White occupation of Australia, has highlighted discourses of marginalization and exclusion for the Chinese pioneers who contributed so significantly to the economic development of the nation. Yet, despite their economic success, few Chinese gained re…
Report on the Torres Strait Creole Project, Thursday Island State High School
This is a slightly abbreviated version of part of a report commissioned at the end of 1995 by the Queensland Department of Education, Peninsula Region, and carried out with the help of teachers at Thursday Island State High School. It analyses some formal language differences between written Standard Australian English and spoken Torres Strait Creole (the language of most of the students) as a basis for workshop writers to develop material in a f…
A Bibliography of Torres Strait Education
This non-selective bibliography is limited to published material and is part of the Bibliography of Torres Strait to be found on the Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander Studies Unit's website at . Torres Strait Islander authors are marked with an asterisk
Introduction: Issues in North Queensland Indigenous Education
There is virtually no disagreement among educational practitioners, theorists and policy makers on the outcomes they seek for Indigenous students. Their ultimate goal is to maximise the future life choices of the upcoming generation of students in an increasingly globalised world. Balancing mainstream curriculum with Indigenous community cultural knowledge, awareness and protocol is a difficult and, finally an individual matter to be negotiated b…
Some Language-related Observations for Teachers in Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula Schools
Newly-graduated non-Indigenous teachers who go to remote Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula (CYP) schools may experience a range of difficulties. This paper makes some observations about one of them: the difficulty of teaching students whose first language is not English and for whom English may well be only one of several languages spoken. Moreover, none of these other languages belongs to the same Indo-European language family as English. Th…
Language in Learning at Thursday Island High Schoo
Last year I was approached by the Thursday Island High School in Torres Strait to analyse the major linguistic differences between Standard English and Torres Strait Creole - the language of the majority of the students - insofar as these affect the students' comprehension and production of written English texts. In this, the High School was responding to a request by its Management Committee and general concern about the students' acquisition of…
From monolingualism to multilingualism in Australia's Torres Strait island communities
Article From monolingualism to multilingualism in Australia’s Torres Strait island communities was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1995, issue 113)
Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Mainland Schools - Part 1 - Language Background
This is the first of two articles, based on a paper delivered at the 1982 conference of the Applied Linguistic Association of Australia, entitled: "Language maintenance among Torres Strait Islanders living on the Australian mainland." It deals with the language backgrounds of most Torres Strait Islander children attending mainstream Queensland schools. The second part, which will appear in the next issue, discusses some of the language difficulti…
Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Mainland Schools
This article is the second of a two-part series on Torres Strait Islander children whose families have settled on the Queensland mainland. Here I discuss some of the language difficulties of these children. The first part, dealing with their language backgrounds, appeared in Vol.12 No.3, June/July 1984
Creolization of Nigerian Pidgin English: A progress report
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Language Use and the Uses of Language
You're gettin’ somethink for nothing: Two phonological variables of Australian English
You're gettin’ somethink for nothing: Two phonological variables of Australian English
Torres Strait Creole: The growth of a new Torres Strait language
Tracing the history of any language is a complex, many-stranded task that involves the weaving together of both internal linguistic developments and concomitant external -historical, social, economic and political -events. This paper, part of an ongoing study of the history of the English-based creole lingua franca of Torres Strait, briefly discusses a crucial period in its external development: the fifty years between 1890 and 1940
Some Language-related Observations for Teachers in Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula Schools
Newly-graduated non-Indigenous teachers who go to remote Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula (CYP) schools may experience a range of difficulties. This paper makes some observations about one of them: the difficulty of teaching students whose first language is not English and for whom English may well be only one of several languages spoken. Moreover, none of these other languages belongs to the same Indo-European language family as English. Th…
Language in Learning at Thursday Island High Schoo
Last year I was approached by the Thursday Island High School in Torres Strait to analyse the major linguistic differences between Standard English and Torres Strait Creole - the language of the majority of the students - insofar as these affect the students' comprehension and production of written English texts. In this, the High School was responding to a request by its Management Committee and general concern about the students' acquisition of…
Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Mainland Schools
This article is the second of a two-part series on Torres Strait Islander children whose families have settled on the Queensland mainland. Here I discuss some of the language difficulties of these children. The first part, dealing with their language backgrounds, appeared in Vol.12 No.3, June/July 1984
The spread of Torres Strait Creole to the central islands of Torres Strait
The following paper outlines the second stage of development of Torres Strait Creole, now the lingua franca, or common language, of Torres Strait Islanders everywhere.2 The first stage, which I discussed in an earlier volume of this journal, was that of the creolisation of Pacific Pidgin English around the turn of the century in three Torres Strait island commu nities.3 In that article, I argued that creolisation was the result of two factors not…
Report on the Torres Strait Creole Project, Thursday Island State High School
This is a slightly abbreviated version of part of a report commissioned at the end of 1995 by the Queensland Department of Education, Peninsula Region, and carried out with the help of teachers at Thursday Island State High School. It analyses some formal language differences between written Standard Australian English and spoken Torres Strait Creole (the language of most of the students) as a basis for workshop writers to develop material in a f…
Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Mainland Schools - Part 1 - Language Background
This is the first of two articles, based on a paper delivered at the 1982 conference of the Applied Linguistic Association of Australia, entitled: "Language maintenance among Torres Strait Islanders living on the Australian mainland." It deals with the language backgrounds of most Torres Strait Islander children attending mainstream Queensland schools. The second part, which will appear in the next issue, discusses some of the language difficulti…
Creolization of Nigerian Pidgin English: A progress report
Preview this article: Creolization of Nigerian Pidgin English: A progress report, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.4.1.03shn-1.gif
A double exile: Filipino settlers in the outer Torres Strait islands, 1870s–1940s
Surprisingly little has been published about the early Filipinos in northern Australia and their relationships with local Indigenous people, compared with their Japanese, Indonesian and even Chinese contemporaries. Despite their origins in the 19th-century marine industries, each community manifests different characteristics, composition and historical trajectories. Examining the similarities and differences among them sheds light on early Austra…
A Bibliography of Torres Strait Education
This non-selective bibliography is limited to published material and is part of the Bibliography of Torres Strait to be found on the Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander Studies Unit's website at . Torres Strait Islander authors are marked with an asterisk
You're gettin’ somethink for nothing: Two phonological variables of Australian English
Creolization of Nigerian Pidgin English: A progress report
Preview this article: Creolization of Nigerian Pidgin English: A progress report, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.4.1.03shn-1.gif
Language Use and the Uses of Language
Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Mainland Schools - Part 1 - Language Background
This is the first of two articles, based on a paper delivered at the 1982 conference of the Applied Linguistic Association of Australia, entitled: "Language maintenance among Torres Strait Islanders living on the Australian mainland." It deals with the language backgrounds of most Torres Strait Islander children attending mainstream Queensland schools. The second part, which will appear in the next issue, discusses some of the language difficulti…
Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Mainland Schools
This article is the second of a two-part series on Torres Strait Islander children whose families have settled on the Queensland mainland. Here I discuss some of the language difficulties of these children. The first part, dealing with their language backgrounds, appeared in Vol.12 No.3, June/July 1984
From monolingualism to multilingualism in Australia's Torres Strait island communities
Article From monolingualism to multilingualism in Australia’s Torres Strait island communities was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1995, issue 113)
Language in Learning at Thursday Island High Schoo
Last year I was approached by the Thursday Island High School in Torres Strait to analyse the major linguistic differences between Standard English and Torres Strait Creole - the language of the majority of the students - insofar as these affect the students' comprehension and production of written English texts. In this, the High School was responding to a request by its Management Committee and general concern about the students' acquisition of…
Some Language-related Observations for Teachers in Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula Schools
Newly-graduated non-Indigenous teachers who go to remote Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula (CYP) schools may experience a range of difficulties. This paper makes some observations about one of them: the difficulty of teaching students whose first language is not English and for whom English may well be only one of several languages spoken. Moreover, none of these other languages belongs to the same Indo-European language family as English. Th…
Aspirational’ Chinese: Achieving Community Prominence on Thursday Island, Northeast Australia
The experience of the Chinese diaspora in Australia has been the subject of much academic attention in the past three decades. The prevailing narrative of the Chinese presence, which dates from early White occupation of Australia, has highlighted discourses of marginalization and exclusion for the Chinese pioneers who contributed so significantly to the economic development of the nation. Yet, despite their economic success, few Chinese gained re…
Report on the Torres Strait Creole Project, Thursday Island State High School
This is a slightly abbreviated version of part of a report commissioned at the end of 1995 by the Queensland Department of Education, Peninsula Region, and carried out with the help of teachers at Thursday Island State High School. It analyses some formal language differences between written Standard Australian English and spoken Torres Strait Creole (the language of most of the students) as a basis for workshop writers to develop material in a f…
A Bibliography of Torres Strait Education
This non-selective bibliography is limited to published material and is part of the Bibliography of Torres Strait to be found on the Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander Studies Unit's website at . Torres Strait Islander authors are marked with an asterisk
Introduction: Issues in North Queensland Indigenous Education
There is virtually no disagreement among educational practitioners, theorists and policy makers on the outcomes they seek for Indigenous students. Their ultimate goal is to maximise the future life choices of the upcoming generation of students in an increasingly globalised world. Balancing mainstream curriculum with Indigenous community cultural knowledge, awareness and protocol is a difficult and, finally an individual matter to be negotiated b…
The spread of Torres Strait Creole to the central islands of Torres Strait
The following paper outlines the second stage of development of Torres Strait Creole, now the lingua franca, or common language, of Torres Strait Islanders everywhere.2 The first stage, which I discussed in an earlier volume of this journal, was that of the creolisation of Pacific Pidgin English around the turn of the century in three Torres Strait island commu nities.3 In that article, I argued that creolisation was the result of two factors not…
Torres Strait Creole: The growth of a new Torres Strait language
Tracing the history of any language is a complex, many-stranded task that involves the weaving together of both internal linguistic developments and concomitant external -historical, social, economic and political -events. This paper, part of an ongoing study of the history of the English-based creole lingua franca of Torres Strait, briefly discusses a crucial period in its external development: the fifty years between 1890 and 1940
A double exile: Filipino settlers in the outer Torres Strait islands, 1870s–1940s
Surprisingly little has been published about the early Filipinos in northern Australia and their relationships with local Indigenous people, compared with their Japanese, Indonesian and even Chinese contemporaries. Despite their origins in the 19th-century marine industries, each community manifests different characteristics, composition and historical trajectories. Examining the similarities and differences among them sheds light on early Austra…
Navigating Boundaries: The Asian diaspora in Torres Strait
Navigating Boundaries belongs to a new generation of Asian–Australian historical studies. The essays presented here draw on an extensive, widely dispersed body of information, including much unpublished material, in order to narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland. Early chapters give an overview of Torres Strait
A Failed Experiment: Okinawan Indents and the Postwar Torres Strait Pearlshelling Industry, 1958–1963
Throughout its European history, Australia has solved recurrent labor shortages by importing workers from overseas. Situated on shipping lanes between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the northern Australian pearlshelling industry became a significant locus of second-wave transnational labor flows (1870–1940) and by the 1880s was dependent on indentured workers from the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Exempted from the racially discriminatory Immigrati…
Linked lives: A mid-twentieth century Okinawan community on Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Far North Queensland
The last large group of indentured Asian labourers to arrive in Australia disembarked at Thursday Island, North Queensland in 1958. They were imported from US-administered Okinawa, Japan, by master pearlers hoping to restore the fortunes of the ailing pearlshelling industry. In retrospect, the Okinawans’ arrival coincided with the end of the industry and by 1962 only a few remained. This article examines the men’s relations with the remnant Japan…
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