Worlded object and its presentation: A Māori philosophy of language

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dc.contributor.authorMika, Carl Te Hiraen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-26T21:28:03Z
dc.date.available2016en_NZ
dc.date.available2016-05-26T21:28:03Z
dc.date.issued2016en_NZ
dc.description.abstractIn an era concerned with the survival of Indigenous languages, language as a general phenomenon needs to be thought of as thoroughly connected to one’s worldview. In this article, I propose a different conception of language that sides more with what I call ‘the worlding of things’ than linguistics. To foreshadow my speculations on language, I consider the possibility that, within the representation of one entity in perception, there exist all other entities. An entity is hence ‘worlded’—a key aspect of the term ‘whakapapa’. I then turn to think about language as a general phenomenon for Mäori, and its complex ability to world an entity even as it adumbrates that thing’s backdrop. I consider the verb ‘to be’ in that light, arguing that Mäori identify language as a sort of gathering of entities rather than an instrument for singling out one thing as thoroughly and separably evident. This article is therefore as much about the full participation of the world as it is about language; it also aims to counter the belief that language is merely a conveyor of ideas.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationMika, C. T. H. (2016). Worlded object and its presentation: A Māori philosophy of language. AlterNative, 12(2), 165–176. http://doi.org/10.20507/AlterNative.2016.12.2.5en
dc.identifier.doi10.20507/AlterNative.2016.12.2.5en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/10267
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isPartOfAlterNativeen_NZ
dc.rightsThis article is published in the AlterNative. © 2016 AlterNative. Used with permission.
dc.titleWorlded object and its presentation: A Māori philosophy of languageen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.begin-page165
pubs.elements-id138894
pubs.end-page176
pubs.issue2en_NZ
pubs.notesQA http://www.alternative.ac.nz/content/information-authorsen_NZ
pubs.organisational-group/Waikato
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pubs.organisational-group/Waikato/FEDU/Te Whiringa
 School of Educational Leadership and Policy
pubs.publisher-urlhttp://www.alternative.ac.nz/journal/alternative-volume-12-issue-2en_NZ
pubs.volume12en_NZ
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