Ian G Malcolm
Biographic Data
| ID | 638162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian G Malcolm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian G |
| FAMILY NAME | Malcolm |
| SIGNATURE | MALCOLM I G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7646-5128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Decolonisation and Neo-colonialism in Aboriginal Education
Ian Malcolm discusses Aboriginal English from the educational point of view, analysing the deconstruction of Aboriginal culture and Indigenous languages under colonial administration. As he describes it, Aboriginal Australians have faced dispossession of their lands and been subjected to practices, laws and language that contradict their culture. Legal and educational systems imposed by the dominant culture have worked to maintain colonial domina…
Australian Aboriginal English and Linguistic Inquiry
Aboriginal English and Responsive Pedagogy in Australian Education
Aboriginal English1, the language many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students bring to the classroom, represents the introduction of significant change into the English language. It is the argument of this paper that the linguistic, social and cultural facts associated with the distinctiveness of Aboriginal English need to be taken into account in the English language education of both Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous …
The representation of Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in an adopted English
The Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia encountered varieties of English as a language of colonisation from 1788. Through processes of nativization, Aboriginal people have made English a valid form of expression of their culture and worldview. For this to happen it was necessary for the input varieties of the language received to be changed in form. This, it is claimed, was achieved through processes of Retention, Elimination, Modification and Ex…
Australian Aboriginal English: Change and Continuity in an Adopted Language
The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regio…
Embedding cultural conceptualization within an adopted language: The English of Aboriginal Australia
Although a minority of Indigenous Australians still use their heritage languages, English has been largely adopted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as their medium of communication both within and beyond their communities. In the period since English first reached Australia in 1788, a dialect has emerged, drawing on English, contact language, and Indigenous language sources, to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers …
A Day in the Park: Emerging Genre for Readers of Aboriginal English
Despite the fact that varieties of Aboriginal English are widely used in communication in Aboriginal communities across Australia, the use of Aboriginal English in writing has been limited. A significant genre for Aboriginal writers has been the autobiographical narrative. In most published narratives of this genre, Aboriginal English has not been widely used. This paper describes and discusses an autobiographical narrative composed by Aboriginal…
The ownership of Aboriginal English in Australia
A widely-observed postcolonial phenomenon is the indigenization of English by communities into which it was formerly involuntarily introduced. When this takes place, the community which has appropriated English to serve its own purposes regards the language as their own. The question of the ownership of English has been extensively discussed by applied linguists against the background of globalization and the need for TESOL teachers to agree on w…
Learning through standard English: Cognitive implications for post-pidgin/-creole speakers
Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school
Children's language and multilingualism: indigenous language use at home and school, edited by Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth, London and New York, Continuum, 2008, xxii + 311 pp., £75.00/US
Australian creoles and Aboriginal English: Phonetics and phonology
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present and Future
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in a…
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Australian Aboriginal Students' Schematic Repertoire
Learning a second dialect entails learning new schemas, and in some cases learning a whole new set of language schemas as well as cultural schemas. Most Australian Aboriginal children live in a bicultural and bidialectal context. They are exposed, to a greater or lesser extent, to the discourse of Australian English and internalise some of its schemas. This may occur in diverse contexts, not only the context of the school. However, Western-based …
But it was all a Bit Confusing: Comprehending Aboriginal English Texts
The study reported in this paper explored the schemas that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal educators bring to the task of comprehending oral narratives produced by Aboriginal children. During each data collection session, a participant listened to a series of eight passages and tried to recall each passage immediately after listening. The participants had a chance to listen to each narrative twice and produce two recalls of each passage. The partic…
The pragmatic marker like in English teen talk: Australian Aboriginal usage
This study reports on the use of like in Aboriginal English teen talk. The analysis of a sub-corpus of 40 adolescent texts from a corpus of 100 narratives by speakers of Aboriginal English in Western Australia revealed that like is often employed by these speakers, and that it achieves a multitude of functions. In general it is observed that like may mark off a) a discrepancy between the intended conceptualization and the expressed concept, b) an…
Aspects of Aboriginal English oral discourse: An Application of Cultural Schema Theory
This article examines how cultural schema theory has been employed to explore some aspects of Aboriginal English oral discourse. The merit of this approach lies in the explanatory tools provided by cultural schema theory in accounting for those features of oral discourse in Aboriginal English which are distinctive and which often impair its lucidity to non-Aboriginal speakers. In particular, we have focused on the exploration of (a) recurrent sem…
Event and story schemas in australian aboriginal English discourse
The Yamatji people of Western Australia, although largely monolingual speakers of English, maintain an Aboriginal English variety for purposes of intra-group communication. A corpus of forty oral narratives by young Yamatji speakers was analysed and interpreted by a cross-cultural research team. Thirty-three of the texts were isolated as informed by four schemas: “travel”, “hunting”, “observing” and “encountering the unknown”. One text of each ty…
Aboriginal English Research: An Overview
A range of varieties of English have been developed for communication within or across Australian Aboriginal communities which are collectively known as Aboriginal English. This designation is normally not used to include pidgins or creoles, although pidgins and creoles have, in the past, played a role in the development of Aboriginal English. Research into varieties of Aboriginal English began in the 1960s with a succession of studies of the inf…
Observations on variability in the verb phrase in aboriginal English
Most existing studies of Aboriginal English have been based on data gathered from individuals or small groups of speakers at a single point in time and/or without reference to considerations of language development. This paper addresses a need, for purposes of language planning in education, for more information on English language development in bidialectal Aboriginal children in the primary school years. It focuses on aspects of the verb phrase…
Discourse and discourse strategies in Australian Aboriginal English
Aboriginal people dwelling in many parts of Australia command a range of English varieties, which are known collectively as Aboriginal English (Sandefur, 1983; Kaldor and Malcolm, 1991). These varieties give evidence of a past history of pidginization and, in some cases, creolization and decreolization. Associated with the use of Aboriginal English are a range of discourse strategies which often make communication with speakers of Standard Austra…
Aboriginal English – an overview
The label ‘Aboriginal English’ usually refers to a range of varieties of English spoken by Aboriginal Australians, which are not identical either with Standard Australian English or a creole. While in recent years the number of speakers of Standard Australian English has increased among Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal English continues to be used by many in a variety of functions, as either a first or second language. In this chapter we will i…
Speech events of the Aboriginal classroom
Speech use in aboriginal communities: A preliminary survey
The West Australian aboriginal child and classroom interaction: A sociolinguistic approach
Australian Aboriginal English: Change and Continuity in an Adopted Language
The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regio…
Aboriginal English Research: An Overview
A range of varieties of English have been developed for communication within or across Australian Aboriginal communities which are collectively known as Aboriginal English. This designation is normally not used to include pidgins or creoles, although pidgins and creoles have, in the past, played a role in the development of Aboriginal English. Research into varieties of Aboriginal English began in the 1960s with a succession of studies of the inf…
Aspects of Aboriginal English oral discourse: An Application of Cultural Schema Theory
This article examines how cultural schema theory has been employed to explore some aspects of Aboriginal English oral discourse. The merit of this approach lies in the explanatory tools provided by cultural schema theory in accounting for those features of oral discourse in Aboriginal English which are distinctive and which often impair its lucidity to non-Aboriginal speakers. In particular, we have focused on the exploration of (a) recurrent sem…
But it was all a Bit Confusing: Comprehending Aboriginal English Texts
The study reported in this paper explored the schemas that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal educators bring to the task of comprehending oral narratives produced by Aboriginal children. During each data collection session, a participant listened to a series of eight passages and tried to recall each passage immediately after listening. The participants had a chance to listen to each narrative twice and produce two recalls of each passage. The partic…
Learning through standard English: Cognitive implications for post-pidgin/-creole speakers
Event and story schemas in australian aboriginal English discourse
The Yamatji people of Western Australia, although largely monolingual speakers of English, maintain an Aboriginal English variety for purposes of intra-group communication. A corpus of forty oral narratives by young Yamatji speakers was analysed and interpreted by a cross-cultural research team. Thirty-three of the texts were isolated as informed by four schemas: “travel”, “hunting”, “observing” and “encountering the unknown”. One text of each ty…
Speech use in aboriginal communities: A preliminary survey
The West Australian aboriginal child and classroom interaction: A sociolinguistic approach
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present and Future
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in a…
Observations on variability in the verb phrase in aboriginal English
Most existing studies of Aboriginal English have been based on data gathered from individuals or small groups of speakers at a single point in time and/or without reference to considerations of language development. This paper addresses a need, for purposes of language planning in education, for more information on English language development in bidialectal Aboriginal children in the primary school years. It focuses on aspects of the verb phrase…
Discourse and discourse strategies in Australian Aboriginal English
Aboriginal people dwelling in many parts of Australia command a range of English varieties, which are known collectively as Aboriginal English (Sandefur, 1983; Kaldor and Malcolm, 1991). These varieties give evidence of a past history of pidginization and, in some cases, creolization and decreolization. Associated with the use of Aboriginal English are a range of discourse strategies which often make communication with speakers of Standard Austra…
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Australian Aboriginal Students' Schematic Repertoire
Learning a second dialect entails learning new schemas, and in some cases learning a whole new set of language schemas as well as cultural schemas. Most Australian Aboriginal children live in a bicultural and bidialectal context. They are exposed, to a greater or lesser extent, to the discourse of Australian English and internalise some of its schemas. This may occur in diverse contexts, not only the context of the school. However, Western-based …
Speech events of the Aboriginal classroom
The representation of Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in an adopted English
The Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia encountered varieties of English as a language of colonisation from 1788. Through processes of nativization, Aboriginal people have made English a valid form of expression of their culture and worldview. For this to happen it was necessary for the input varieties of the language received to be changed in form. This, it is claimed, was achieved through processes of Retention, Elimination, Modification and Ex…
Embedding cultural conceptualization within an adopted language: The English of Aboriginal Australia
Although a minority of Indigenous Australians still use their heritage languages, English has been largely adopted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as their medium of communication both within and beyond their communities. In the period since English first reached Australia in 1788, a dialect has emerged, drawing on English, contact language, and Indigenous language sources, to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers …
The ownership of Aboriginal English in Australia
A widely-observed postcolonial phenomenon is the indigenization of English by communities into which it was formerly involuntarily introduced. When this takes place, the community which has appropriated English to serve its own purposes regards the language as their own. The question of the ownership of English has been extensively discussed by applied linguists against the background of globalization and the need for TESOL teachers to agree on w…
The West Australian aboriginal child and classroom interaction: A sociolinguistic approach
Speech use in aboriginal communities: A preliminary survey
Speech events of the Aboriginal classroom
Aboriginal English – an overview
The label ‘Aboriginal English’ usually refers to a range of varieties of English spoken by Aboriginal Australians, which are not identical either with Standard Australian English or a creole. While in recent years the number of speakers of Standard Australian English has increased among Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal English continues to be used by many in a variety of functions, as either a first or second language. In this chapter we will i…
Discourse and discourse strategies in Australian Aboriginal English
Aboriginal people dwelling in many parts of Australia command a range of English varieties, which are known collectively as Aboriginal English (Sandefur, 1983; Kaldor and Malcolm, 1991). These varieties give evidence of a past history of pidginization and, in some cases, creolization and decreolization. Associated with the use of Aboriginal English are a range of discourse strategies which often make communication with speakers of Standard Austra…
Observations on variability in the verb phrase in aboriginal English
Most existing studies of Aboriginal English have been based on data gathered from individuals or small groups of speakers at a single point in time and/or without reference to considerations of language development. This paper addresses a need, for purposes of language planning in education, for more information on English language development in bidialectal Aboriginal children in the primary school years. It focuses on aspects of the verb phrase…
Event and story schemas in australian aboriginal English discourse
The Yamatji people of Western Australia, although largely monolingual speakers of English, maintain an Aboriginal English variety for purposes of intra-group communication. A corpus of forty oral narratives by young Yamatji speakers was analysed and interpreted by a cross-cultural research team. Thirty-three of the texts were isolated as informed by four schemas: “travel”, “hunting”, “observing” and “encountering the unknown”. One text of each ty…
Aboriginal English Research: An Overview
A range of varieties of English have been developed for communication within or across Australian Aboriginal communities which are collectively known as Aboriginal English. This designation is normally not used to include pidgins or creoles, although pidgins and creoles have, in the past, played a role in the development of Aboriginal English. Research into varieties of Aboriginal English began in the 1960s with a succession of studies of the inf…
Aspects of Aboriginal English oral discourse: An Application of Cultural Schema Theory
This article examines how cultural schema theory has been employed to explore some aspects of Aboriginal English oral discourse. The merit of this approach lies in the explanatory tools provided by cultural schema theory in accounting for those features of oral discourse in Aboriginal English which are distinctive and which often impair its lucidity to non-Aboriginal speakers. In particular, we have focused on the exploration of (a) recurrent sem…
The pragmatic marker like in English teen talk: Australian Aboriginal usage
This study reports on the use of like in Aboriginal English teen talk. The analysis of a sub-corpus of 40 adolescent texts from a corpus of 100 narratives by speakers of Aboriginal English in Western Australia revealed that like is often employed by these speakers, and that it achieves a multitude of functions. In general it is observed that like may mark off a) a discrepancy between the intended conceptualization and the expressed concept, b) an…
But it was all a Bit Confusing: Comprehending Aboriginal English Texts
The study reported in this paper explored the schemas that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal educators bring to the task of comprehending oral narratives produced by Aboriginal children. During each data collection session, a participant listened to a series of eight passages and tried to recall each passage immediately after listening. The participants had a chance to listen to each narrative twice and produce two recalls of each passage. The partic…
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Australian Aboriginal Students' Schematic Repertoire
Learning a second dialect entails learning new schemas, and in some cases learning a whole new set of language schemas as well as cultural schemas. Most Australian Aboriginal children live in a bicultural and bidialectal context. They are exposed, to a greater or lesser extent, to the discourse of Australian English and internalise some of its schemas. This may occur in diverse contexts, not only the context of the school. However, Western-based …
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present and Future
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in a…
Australian creoles and Aboriginal English: Phonetics and phonology
Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school
Children's language and multilingualism: indigenous language use at home and school, edited by Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth, London and New York, Continuum, 2008, xxii + 311 pp., £75.00/US
Learning through standard English: Cognitive implications for post-pidgin/-creole speakers
The ownership of Aboriginal English in Australia
A widely-observed postcolonial phenomenon is the indigenization of English by communities into which it was formerly involuntarily introduced. When this takes place, the community which has appropriated English to serve its own purposes regards the language as their own. The question of the ownership of English has been extensively discussed by applied linguists against the background of globalization and the need for TESOL teachers to agree on w…
A Day in the Park: Emerging Genre for Readers of Aboriginal English
Despite the fact that varieties of Aboriginal English are widely used in communication in Aboriginal communities across Australia, the use of Aboriginal English in writing has been limited. A significant genre for Aboriginal writers has been the autobiographical narrative. In most published narratives of this genre, Aboriginal English has not been widely used. This paper describes and discusses an autobiographical narrative composed by Aboriginal…
Embedding cultural conceptualization within an adopted language: The English of Aboriginal Australia
Although a minority of Indigenous Australians still use their heritage languages, English has been largely adopted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as their medium of communication both within and beyond their communities. In the period since English first reached Australia in 1788, a dialect has emerged, drawing on English, contact language, and Indigenous language sources, to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers …
The representation of Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in an adopted English
The Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia encountered varieties of English as a language of colonisation from 1788. Through processes of nativization, Aboriginal people have made English a valid form of expression of their culture and worldview. For this to happen it was necessary for the input varieties of the language received to be changed in form. This, it is claimed, was achieved through processes of Retention, Elimination, Modification and Ex…
Australian Aboriginal English: Change and Continuity in an Adopted Language
The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regio…
Aboriginal English and Responsive Pedagogy in Australian Education
Aboriginal English1, the language many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students bring to the classroom, represents the introduction of significant change into the English language. It is the argument of this paper that the linguistic, social and cultural facts associated with the distinctiveness of Aboriginal English need to be taken into account in the English language education of both Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous …
Decolonisation and Neo-colonialism in Aboriginal Education
Ian Malcolm discusses Aboriginal English from the educational point of view, analysing the deconstruction of Aboriginal culture and Indigenous languages under colonial administration. As he describes it, Aboriginal Australians have faced dispossession of their lands and been subjected to practices, laws and language that contradict their culture. Legal and educational systems imposed by the dominant culture have worked to maintain colonial domina…
Australian Aboriginal English and Linguistic Inquiry
Linguistics (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (16 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (14 works) · History (10 works) · Australian English (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works)