The Value of the Maori Language
The Value of the Maori Language

Author: Rawinia Higgins

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2014-05-16

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1775502821

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Twenty-five years ago the Māori Language Act was passed, but research still finds that the Māori language is dying. This collection looks at the state of the language since the Act, how the language is faring in education, media, texts and communities and what the future aspirations for the language are.

Home: Here to Stay
Home: Here to Stay

Author: Mere Kepa

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1775502724

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This is a collection of twelve academic essays that consider understandings of home and the impact of dominant societies on indigenous societies and their homes. The book covers home and language preservation, homelessness, retention of land, tobacco use in the home, loss of home through trauma and natural disaster, ageing and health, and the meaning of home. This is the third book in the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Edited Collections series.

Always Speaking
Always Speaking

Author: Veronica Tawhai

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1775500209

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This is a collection of papers that examine the current place of the Treaty of Waitangi in core public policy areas. The authors analyse the tensions and dynamics in the relationship between Maori and the Crown in their areas of expertise, detail the key challenges being faced, and provide insights on how these can be overcome. The policy areas covered in the collection span the environment, Maori and social development, health, broadcasting, the Maori language, prison and the courts, local government, research, science and technology, culture and heritage, foreign affairs, women's issues, labour, youth, education, economics, housing and the electoral system.

Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages
Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages

Author: Mari C. Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-08-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1316352412

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Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging volume, which explores linguistic scenarios from across five continents, seeks to ignite the debate as to how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of endangered varieties. With chapters written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities on the frontline of language support and maintenance, Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages is essential reading for researchers and students of language death, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, as well as community members involved in native language maintenance.