Book contents
- Standardising English
- Standardising English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures, Maps and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts
- Part II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective
- Part III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century
- 10 The Grammatical Margins of Class
- 11 Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People
- 12 Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm
- 13 Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
12 - Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm
from Part III - Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2018
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Book contents
- Standardising English
- Standardising English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures, Maps and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts
- Part II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective
- Part III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century
- 10 The Grammatical Margins of Class
- 11 Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People
- 12 Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm
- 13 Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
American English has long been accepted as a “norm” in itself and Australian and New Zealand English have also, in their own ways, been “normalised”. Maori English is now slowly emerging alongside Pakeha English, with which it naturally shares common features. It is only after the phase of endonormative stabilisation, with a “gradual adoption and acceptance of an indigenous linguistic norm” (Schneider 2003: 244-254) that ethnic varieties may arise. This, in turn, may also help explain why it has taken longer for Maori English to be recognised. Before the rise of Maori literature, Maori English was essentially perceived as deviating from English. Maori literature actively participates in the construction and recognition of Maori English as a written dialect, while rarely relying on what Benton (1991) describes as “non-standard forms”, forms that only occur in the mouths of deprived Maori characters. A variety of English is thus codified without limiting it to mirroring social margins.
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- Standardising EnglishNorms and Margins in the History of the English Language, pp. 234 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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