Pragmatic Differences In Aboriginal English

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The components which make the two English different from one another is the sounds which seems familiar, whereas in situations in a communication the difference is revealed through the semantic or pragmatic differences which this maintains a different meaning in Aboriginal English from its meaning in Australian English which brings along a misinterpretation (Ab-ed.boardofstuidies.nsw.edu.au, n.d.). As teachers we need to also have the knowledge of history of these students in considering their education through the use of Aboriginal English in their daily lives is revealed after the Government had forced them to forget and not use their own traditional language and instead speak English, and if this was not the case these people would have

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