WORKING IN/PLAYING WITH THREE LANGUAGES

Authors

  • Joan Metge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol2iss2id65

Abstract

This paper explores some of the difficulties and rewards of cross cultural communication and translation, drawing on the author’s long-term fieldwork experiences in Northland, New Zealand. It also examines some of the creative and subversive ways that Maori use – and play with – language.

Author Biography

  • Joan Metge
    Honorary Research Fellow

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2005)

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WORKING IN/PLAYING WITH THREE LANGUAGES. (2008). Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 2(2), 83-90. https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol2iss2id65