1990/01/01 by Patrick McConvel · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Australian Indigenous Culture and History #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Language and cultural evolution #Linguistic anthropology #Prehistory #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #Sociology #Anthropology #Ignorance #Anthropological linguistics #Archaeology #History #Applied linguistics #Epistemology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1080/03122417.1990.11681384
openalex publication_date 1990/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Both linguistic and archaeological work in Australia have made great strides in the last twenty years. However, these developments have occurred in each discipline in isolation from, and largely in ignorance of, the methods and results of the other discipline. This situation is ripe for change: the links between the disciplines are demanding attention in order to answer questions about Australian prehistory emerging in both. Recent archaeology has drawn more and more on anthropology and social theory, and historical linguistics has begun to attune itself to the advances in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. By means of this bridge through anthropology, the divide between archaeology and linguistics can now be crossed and a common language - or at least a measure of bilingualism - can develop within the disciplines, in order jointly to construct models of social, cultural and linguistic change.