Everyday watching and learning in an Indigenous Australian community
In: Learning, culture and social interaction, Band 15, S. 31-43
ISSN: 2210-6561
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In: Learning, culture and social interaction, Band 15, S. 31-43
ISSN: 2210-6561
In: Learning, culture and social interaction, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 227-237
ISSN: 2210-6561
In: Research on children and social interaction: RCSI, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 164-198
ISSN: 2057-5815
In the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in remote Western Australia children play a guessing game called mama mama ngunytju ngunytju 'father father mother mother'. It is mainly girls who play the game, along with other members of their social network, including age-mates, older kin and adults. They offer clues about target referents and establish mutual understandings through multimodal forms of representation that include semi-conventionalized drawings on the sand. In this paper we show how speech, gesture, and graphic schemata are negotiated and identify several recurrent themes, particularly focusing on the domains of kinship and spatial awareness. We discuss the implications this case study has for understanding the changing nature of language socialization in remote Indigenous Australia. Multimodal analyses of games and other indirect teaching routines deepen our understandings of the acquisition of cultural knowledge and the development of communicative competence in this context.