The grammar and conceptualisation of motion in Iwaidja

Cris Edmonds-Wathen

The grammar and conceptualisation of motion in Iwaidja

Cris Edmonds-Wathen

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Different languages have different ways of using spatial language, grammatically and conceptually. This paper reports on aspects of the language of motion in Iwaidja, an indigenous Australian language. The way that Iwaidja groups and separates spatial concepts such as direction, height and movement in relation to another object are briefly described using examples from a route description task. The implications are discussed in terms of how understanding these grammatical features can help teachers of Indigenous students, as wellas providing keys to cross-linguistic investigations of mathematical cognition

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education
Editors	Konrad Krainer, Naďa Vondrová
Place of Publication	Prague, Czech Republic
Publisher	Charles University in Prague
Pages	1361-1367
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-80-7290-844-8
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education - Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 4 Feb 2015 → 8 Feb 2015 Conference number: 9th

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Conference	Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education
Abbreviated title	CERME9
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	4/02/15 → 8/02/15

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Edmonds-Wathen, C 2015, The grammar and conceptualisation of motion in Iwaidja. in K Krainer & N Vondrová (eds), Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education., TWG09, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 1361-1367, Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Prague, Czech Republic, 4/02/15. <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/CERME9/public/CERME9_Proceedings_2015.pdf>

The grammar and conceptualisation of motion in Iwaidja. / Edmonds-Wathen, Cris.
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. ed. / Konrad Krainer; Naďa Vondrová. Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University in Prague, 2015. p. 1361-1367 TWG09.

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