University of Auckland

Readings

Week 1: Introduction/What is identity? What role does language play in this?

Tabouret-Keller, Andre. 1997. Language and identity. In Florian Coulmas (ed), The Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 315-326

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Week 2: NZ Populations: ethnicities & languages

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

Note: 21 March: no class (Good Friday)

Week 4: Maori: status of te reo; Maori identity

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 5: Pasifika communities

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

Assignment 1: due 1 April, 4 pm

4 April substitute class to be confirmed

Week 6: Pasifika communities cont

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-term break 14 - 19 April

Week 7: European communities

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

Note: 25 April: no class (Anzac Day)

Week 8: European communities + in-class test

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

In-class test: 2 May

Week 9: Asian communities

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 10: More on Asian communities + Deaf community

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 11: More on deaf community + What is a pakeha? And what is NZE

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 12: Characteristics of NZE and variation within NZE

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

Assignment 2: due 30 May, 4 pm

Week 13: Changing language and identities: national and international influences

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

Useful journals: New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics, New Zealand English Journal, Te Reo: the Journal of the New Zealand Linguistics Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics

2008

Faculty of Arts