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    Navigating linguistic realities in Aotearoa: Maintaining Tagalog and supporting Māori revitalisation
    (2024-08-31) Iguin, Rosario
    OBJECTIVES + Setting the stage: NZ population, language statistics& brief history + Theoretical frameworks & key literature + Research methodology + Findings and discussion PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES To explore how a family navigates the dual challenge of maintaining the Tagalog language and supporting the revitalisation of te reo Māori, from the perspective of a Filipino migrant mother. This study provides a snapshot of multilingual practices, language preservation for linguistic inclusivity, integration and solidarity.
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    What metaphors tell us about the market: reconciling linguistics, cognition and pragmatics in order to understand the impact of metaphor use on society
    (2018-06-27) Romova, Zina; Varley, Steve; Unitec Institute of Technology
    In the last 25 years, traditional approaches to the treatment of metaphor have been increasingly questioned on both theoretical and experimental grounds and, as a result, Metaphorology has become a flourishing academic discipline and research area. However, the study of the use of metaphor in NZ socio-economic and political discourse remains underdeveloped. We will overview various ways of identifying, researching and categorising metaphors, including the analysis of metaphor in cognitive linguistics (see Gibbs, 2008), in Critical Discourse Analysis (see Musollf, 2012), and in the recent Relevance Theory (Wilson, 2011), the latter shedding new light on the ongoing debates, and suggests fruitful directions for new research. We will then report on the application of an integrated corpus-based approach to an examination of the social impact of metaphors used in texts published in The New Zealand Herald in reference to the condition of the housing market in Auckland. Our study aims to contribute to a fuller picture of genre specific metaphor use in a traditional western newspaper. The analysis applied in the study seeks to unmask the persuasive ideological functions carried and hidden in discourse, the relative social positions of the text producer and the text recipient, and the factors that may influence the recipients’ decoding of the identified metaphors, including the crucial role of context in metaphor creation, interpretation and comprehension. Our findings include lists of metaphors used in the genres under examination and their classification based on latest cognitivist conceptualisations of metaphors.
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    Son et lumière : re-enchantment and environmental obligation in Michael Symmons Roberts' 'Drysalter'
    (2018-09-28) Egerton, B.; Unitec Institute of Technology
    A particular Western secularisation and disenchantment narrative proposes that the post Enlightenment promotion of rationalism, science and technology entails the abandonment of “the great enchanted garden” (Weber, The Sociology of Religion, 240), the sacred understanding of the world and “the fulness thereof” (KJV, Psalm 24:1). Drawing on the work of Max Weber, Friedrich Schiller, C.S. Lewis and Rowan Williams, this paper investigates disenchantment and re-enchantment through the application of the senses of sight and hearing in English poet Michael Symmons Roberts’ prize-winning 2013 collection Drysalter. This paper focuses on five separate but interrelated poems placed throughout the collection, all set in “Paradise / an old zoo, abandoned / by its keepers” (Drysalter, 20)—and, I argue, collocated with Weber’s enchanted garden, Eden, and planet earth. I suggest that these poems use ‘sight’ as a metaphor of a rational and enlightened, but partial, human understanding of the world, and offer ‘hearing’ (of nature’s enchanted voice or sound) as the necessary complement that permits true, full comprehension and stewardship of creation. With its echo of Schiller, Roberts’ final ‘Paradise/Zoo’ poem resurrects extinct bat species through a “son et lumière” show, and demonstrates that re-enchantment can only take place in the simultaneity of “son”, nature’s sound, and the “lumière” of enlightened human understanding. It is in the holding together of these two understandings where Christian responsibility towards God’s creation lies.
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    Creating opportunities for confident and curious learners : the importance of multilingual teachers in ECE learning environments
    (2018-11-03) Norton, Howard; Unitec Institute of Technology
    Why expose our young learners to a second language? Can develop cognitive ability. Opportunities in a globalized world Maintenance of a heritage language for migrants In New Zealand 150+ languages spoken Canada Australia How do young children learn? We need ECE teachers with .... References
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    Keepin' It Reo in a digital learning space
    (2018-04) Komene, T.M.; Unitec Institute of Technology
    Te mihinga komene (presenter) Nō whea ahau? Nō whea koe? Te paerewa - te tiriti o waitangi partnership Ko wai tō ingoa? Tohutō - macrons Kīwaha - expression, saying Te reo hangarau - DT [digi tech] terms E rima a runga - top 5 Waiata Te reo Māori queries Tikanga Māori Session resources Learn more! Stay connected! [Contains many useful links for Te Reo vocabulary in the computing, technology and internet fields]