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--- abstract: 'Schema theory provides a meeting place for the studies of language, culture, and cognition. Cultural knowledge and experience are represented in the form of cognitive schemas, which underlie the production of cultural discourse. Thus, an examination of distinctive patterns of discourse produced by cultural groups may provide us with an understanding of their underlying cultural schemas. Discourse in English produced by Aboriginal students reveals certain Aboriginal cultural schemas. A closer analysis of Aboriginal English discourse also reveals some salient patterns which may be explained by the way these cultural schemas are processed. The present study is an initial attempt to explore these patterns in the light of schema theory. In this analysis, certain features suggest distinctive patterns of schema activation, while some other point to the possibility of a distinctive role played by schemas in the use of referential devices. ' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'July, 2000' conference: The 5th Annual Round Table of the Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Research confloc: 'Edith Cowan University, Western Australia' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Sharifian given: Farzad honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2000 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-03-02 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/12/49 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1249 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1249/1/ABORIGINAL_PROCESSING.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: |+ Aboriginal cognition and language. 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An introduction to cognitive linguistics.London: Longman relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:37:07 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-psy - ling-sem - psy-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Aspects of schematic processing in Indigenous speakers of Aboriginal English: An initial exploration' type: confpaper userid: 1255 volume: ~