Publications

Publication details [#61728]

Albury, Nathan John. 2016. Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (3) : 287–311.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

folk language | language revival | language vitality | location description | youth

Language as a subject

Maori

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This folk linguistic study shows that 1.300 (non-)Indigenous New Zealand youngsters define Māori language revitalisation and vitality in terms contextualised by local views, knowledge, ideologies, values and ontology, thus defying local relevance of universal theories.