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The Folk Linguistics of Language Policy (completed)

Knowing, Feeling and Doing Māori Language Revitalisation

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Nathan Albury.

Photo: Nadia Frantsen, UiO.

About the project

This project proposes the folk linguistics of language policy as a paradigm of language policy research to explore what non-linguists know and think about language policy matters and how they perform or create language policy.

In particular, the project reveals and analyses folk knowledge and folk beliefs about Māori language revitalisation amongst indigenous and non-indigenous youth in New Zealand.  

The questions of the project are:

  1. How can folk linguistic theory and language policy theory be more closely united to form a coherent theoretical approach, and is this useful? 
  2. What are the folk linguistic perspectives of indigenous and non-indigenous youth in New Zealand regarding Māori language revitalisation as a linguistic endeavor?  In particular:
    • what do youth claim to know as facts about language revitalisation as a policy and sociolinguistic phenomenon?
    • what attitudes, beliefs and aspirations do these youth have for Māori language revitalisation?
Published July 1, 2014 2:33 PM - Last modified Apr. 21, 2020 11:04 AM

Contact

Nathan Albury

Participants

  • Nathan John Albury Universitetet i Oslo
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