Course Outline

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Week 1:  Introduction: What is identity? What role does language play in this?
6 March
Reading:  Tabouret-Keller, Andre.  1997.  Language and identity.  In Florian  Coulmas (ed), The Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.  pp. 315-326
 
Week 2   NZ Populations: ethnicities and languages
13 March
Reading: 
Starks, Donna, Harlow, Ray and Bell, Allan.  2005.  Introduction. Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand.  Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 13-29
   
Peddie, Roger.  2005.  Planning for the Future?  Language policy in New  Zealand.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand.  Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 30-55

Week 3     Historical outline +  Maori: status of te reo; Maori identity
20 March
Reading:  
Harlow, Ray.  2005.  Maori: Introduction.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 59-66

Spolsky, Bernard.  2005.  Maori lost and regained.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 67-85

Boyce, Mary.  2005.  Attitudes to Maori.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand.  Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 86-110

(optional) King, Jeanette.  1995.  Maori English as a solidarity marker for te reo Maori.  New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 1995: 51-59

Week 4    Pasifika communities
27 March
Reading: Hunkin-Tuiletufuga, Galumalemana.  2001.  Pasefika languages and Pasefika identities: contemporary and future challenges.  McPherson, Cluny , Spoonley, Paul and Anae, Melanie (eds), Tangata o te Moana Nui.  Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.  pp. 196-211 

Week 5        Pasifika communities + review

Assignment 1:   due 31 March, 4 pm

3 April
Reading: Davis, Karen & Starks, Donna. 2005.  Four factors for Cook Islands Maori language maintenance.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand.  Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 298-321

Mid-semester break 6-17 April

Week 6       European communities
24 April
Reading:  
Kuiper, Kon.  2005 Invisible immigrants: inaudible language: Nederlands en Nederlanders in Nieuw Zeeland.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 322-342

Verivaki, Maria.  1991.  Greek language maintenance and shift in the Greek community in Wellington: Attitudes.  Holmes, Janet and Harlow, Ray (eds), Threads in the New Zealand Tapestry of Language.  Pp. 71-116

Week 7       test + review

In-class test: 1 May

Week 8 Asian communities
8 May
Reading: 
Roberts, Mary.  2005.  Immigrants’ attitudes to language maintenance in New Zealand.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 248-271
 
Kim, Jeong & Starks, Donna.  2005.  Language diaries: a case study of language use in the New Zealand Korean community.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 343-369

Week 9    Deaf community
15 May
Reading: Rachel McKee & Graeme Kennedy.  2005.  New Zealand Sign Language.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 271-297

Week 10 What is a pakeha? And what is NZE
22 May
Reading: Bayard, D.  1995.  Kiwitalk.  Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.  pp. 152-160

Britain, David.  2005.  Where did New Zealand English come from?  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 156-193

Week 11 Characteristics of NZE and variation within NZE
29 May
Reading: 
Gordon, Elizabeth and Deverson, Tony.  1898.  New Zealand English and English in New Zealand.  Auckland: New House.  Pp. 33-51

Bauer, Laurie and Bauer, Winifred.  2005.  Regional dialects in New Zealand children’s playground vocabulary.  Bell, Allan, Harlow, Ray and Starks, Donna (eds), Languages of New Zealand.  Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp. 194-216 

Bayard, Donn and Bartlett, Chris.  1996.  “You must be from Gorre”: attitudinal effects of Southland rhotic accents and speaker gender on NZE listeners and the question of NZE regional variation.  Te Reo 39. 
pp. 25-46  

Week 12   Changing language and identities: national and international influences + exam review

Assignment 2:  due 2 June, 4 pm 

5 June
Reading: Stubbe, Maria and Holmes, Janet.  2000.  Talking Maori or Pakeha in English: Signalling identity in discourse.  Bell, Allan and Kuiper, Kon (eds), New Zealand English.  Wellington: Victoria University Press.  pp.249-278

Bayard, Donn.   2000.  The  cultural cringe revisited: changes through time in Kiwi attitudes towards accents.  In Bell, Allan and Kuiper 2000. pp  297-324