The hierarchy of minority languages in New Zealand

Bres, Julia de

doi:10.1080/01434632.2015.1009465

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“…Chrisp () explains that incipient bilinguals are often reluctant to use the language because of purist ideologies amongst elders that create feelings of ethnolinguistic shame. de Bres () found through a series of interviews with New Zealand government officials that a hierarchy of language values exists, again confirming the ideological dominance of English. While such literature addresses language attitudes, it does not discover how New Zealanders themselves perceive and define language revitalisation from an epistemic perspective, such as what it comprises, how it happens and indeed why, in a way that the folk linguistics of language policy might help reveal.…”

Section: The Context Of Aotearoa/new Zealandmentioning

confidence: 73%

Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics

Albury

2016

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised perspectives on language arrangements. In this way, a polity, in its social and cultural context, can be understood as much as the policies it operates. In the case of Indigenous languages undergoing revitalisation, this allows us to define language revitalisation, and the vitality it should deliver, not through western scholarship but for local purposes with local ideas by examining local knowledge and preferences. To do this, a folk linguistic approach was applied to language policy research. A quantitative and qualitative survey investigated how around 1,300 Indigenous and non‐Indigenous youth in New Zealand define Māori language revitalisation from their own perspective and how they perceive the revitalisation processes and outcomes proposed in scholarship and local discourses. The paper shows that claimed linguistic knowledge not only exists parallel to language attitudes, but informs local policy ideas. The findings indicate that these youth define language revitalisation and vitality in terms contextualised by local ontology, knowledge, ideologies and values, therefore challenging the local applicability of universal theories.

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Section: The Context Of Aotearoa/new Zealandmentioning

confidence: 73%

Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics

Albury

2016

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…More recent large-scale migration from East and South Asia, particularly China, the Philippines, India and Korea, combined with refugee intakes from Africa and the Middle East, has led to the existence of many other language communities, particularly in the larger cities. Support for the learning of their languages from pre-school to tertiary, within formal institutions and in community settings, can be found in some quarters, but these languages have less salience in the discourse about language learning than te reo Māori , English and NZSL – and fewer resources (de Bres, 2015). There has been little sense of government obligation to support them.…”

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A review of research in applied linguistics published in New Zealand (2013–2017)

Skyrme

Ker

2020

Lang. Teach.

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This article presents selected research on applied linguistics published in New Zealand, following Language Teaching's commitment to showcase more broadly local research that would not otherwise be easily accessible to an international audience. It covers research conducted and published in New Zealand from 2013 to 2017, following on from Ker, Adams, and Skyrme (2013). It begins with an overview of the language situation in New Zealand, then summarises research into language learning, teaching and use which has appeared in the domestic applied linguistics literature in the period. The review indicates the continuing depth and breadth of research activity in New Zealand. Major themes include the maintenance of languages other than English, notably the official languages, te reo Māori (the Māori language) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL), and strategies to reverse dwindling enrolments in courses in additional languages against the background of growing linguistic diversity. There is interest in innovative methodology, and in processes of assessment and curriculum development to underpin teaching in formal educational settings. The prevalence of studies with a focus on small numbers of cases reflects the preponderance of practitioner-led research. There is, however, a parallel trend towards larger-scale studies indicating capacity to undertake larger, collaborative projects.

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“… 2 I focus on New Zealand where there is one clear majority group and a number of minorities. While there is undoubtedly an ‘order’ or hierarchy of minority groups (de Bres 2015), I here use the relationship between the majority Pākehā (New Zealanders of European origin) and the indigenous Māori people to illustrate the concept of the culture order. …”

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Negotiating the culture order in New Zealand workplaces

Holmes

2018

Lang. Soc.

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In many societies the relative social status of different social and cultural groups results in hegemonic relationships or an ‘order’ which manifests itself as sets of taken-for-granted societal norms or ideologies which influence behavior, including linguistic behavior. I label this concept the culture order, and propose it as a potential sociolinguistic universal. Drawing on the research of the Language in the Workplace Project (LWP) team, I provide evidence of some of the complex components of the New Zealand culture order. Using a social realist theoretical framework, and an interactional sociolinguistics approach, I identify a number of areas of contrast in the discourses instantiating the Māori and Pākehā culture orders (e.g. meeting norms, ways of criticising others), as well as discourse norms apparently shared by both groups (e.g. the Modesty Maxim; see Leech 2014). The complexities of these similarities and differences are discussed as well as their implications for hegemonic relationships. (Culture order, workplace discourse, sociolinguistic universals, egalitarianism, meeting norms)*

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The hierarchy of minority languages in New Zealand

Cited by 36 publications

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Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics

Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics

A review of research in applied linguistics published in New Zealand (2013–2017)

Negotiating the culture order in New Zealand workplaces

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