Tawhiao's Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin

Autor/inn/en	Mika, Carl Te Hira; Tiakiwai, Sarah-Jane
Titel	Tawhiao's Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (2017) 9, S.854-866 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2015.1135409
Schlagwörter	Foreign Policy; Ethnic Groups; Pacific Islanders; Figurative Language; Metacognition; Language Usage; Malayo Polynesian Languages; World Views; Philosophy; Language Variation; Mythology; Freedom; Language Research; Discourse Analysis; Higher Education; Political Attitudes; Research and Development; Foreign Countries; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Außenpolitik; Ethnie; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Sprachgebrauch; World view; Weltanschauung; Philosophie; Sprachenvielfalt; Mythologie; Freiheit; Sprachforschung; Diskursanalyse; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Forschung und Entwicklung; Ausland; Neuseeland
Abstract	In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a language that is emotional, innately tied to a static mooring of pre-rational thought. Yet, in this paper we argue that a Maori metaphysics complicates the delineations between primordial and novelistic language. Indeed, there is in a Maori worldview the notion that a term contains to it both postcolonial and mythical traces at once. Thus each apparently primordial term is tinged with the realities of colonised experience, even if they seem concrete and self-referential. In this paper we address those multiple voices in light of Bakhtin's philosophies on heteroglossia, and argue that the accusation of "myth" in relation to Tawhiao's sayings is possible yet does not accommodate the metaphysics founding the sayings. We speculate that there is a form of freedom in Tawhiao's words that exists regardless of our interpretation but that calls to be unearthed through an open reading. Sir Robert Mahuta, prominent Tainui leader, is one who has already indicated the need for a heteroglossic reading of Tawhiao. We then move to a description of the Waikato-Tainui College for Research and Development as it attempts to carry out this heteroglossic reading of Maori political and metaphysical text and utterance. (As Provided).
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