Harlow, Ray2026-03-042026-03-042002-02Harlow, R. (2002). On the Role of Literature and Translation in Language Maintenance. He Puna Korero: Journal of Maori and Pacific Development, 3(1), 73-87.1175-3099https://hdl.handle.net/10289/18025The paper investigates the actual and potential role which is played by the promotion of traditional and innovative literature in efforts to maintain minority language under threat from a dominant language. The arguments advanced in the controversy surrounding the incorporation of translated material in a minority language’s corpus are discussed, and the view represented that the appropriateness or otherwise of translating material into a minority language depends on the (sometimes implicit) ideological goals of the maintenance movement. Fishman’s (1991, 2001) Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale provides a framework for this discussion.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/literatureminority languageJournal Article10.15663/K10.140353021-5668