Crombie, WinifredBruce, IanHouia-Roberts, Ngaere2026-02-252026-02-252005-021175-3099https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17968There is a commonly held belief that those who are immersed in indigenous cultures have a tendency, when constructing academic texts, to avoid sequential, deductive argumentation. We report here on a comparison of two groups of texts exhibiting two different genres - 'explaining' and 'arguing'. One group of texts was written in Māori by indigenous authors, the other group was written in English by non-indigenous authors. Our findings are that although the percentage use of logico-deductive relationships is roughly equivalent for both groups of texts/ writers in the case of the explaining genre, the Māori texts/ writers use almost twice the percentage of logico-deductive relationships as do the English texts/ writers.enMāori linguisticsTe reo MāoriMāori textual analysisJournal Article10.15663/K10.140933021-5668