On Gammon, Global Noise And Indigenous Heterogeneity: Words As Things In Aboriginal Public Culture

On Gammon, Global Noise And Indigenous Heterogeneity: Words As Things In Aboriginal Public Culture Daniel Fisher, 2010   ‘Gammon’, a term derived from English and which can be glossed in Aboriginal Australia as meaning fake, cheap or broken, is shared across varieties of Aboriginal English and has become affectionately revered as icon of an intra-Aboriginal public culture. The shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines gammon as the distraction proffered as one’s pockets are picked and, more...

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