Boundaries, activism, and language revitalisation: bilingual picturebooks in Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand

Daly, Nicola, Rosser, Siwan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7755-3306 and Haf, Ilid 2025. Boundaries, activism, and language revitalisation: bilingual picturebooks in Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand. Hartmann, Esa Christine and McGillicuddy, Aine, eds. Creative Readings of Multilingual Picturebooks, Routledge Research in Literacy Education, Routledge, pp. 43-56. (10.4324/9781032655376-5)

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Abstract

This chapter explores how linguistic boundaries are negotiated in bilingual picturebooks involving Indigenous minority languages in Cymru Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ). Whilst the pedagogical potential of multilingual picturebooks is widely attested, research on picturebooks which collocate dominant and minority languages is beginning to reveal how they can both reflect and critique wider linguistic practices, attitudes, and social structures. This chapter will further our understanding of the relationship between language and power in minority-language publishing by exploring the impact of linguistic marginalisation and recent revitalisation on bilingual picturebooks in two different sociolinguistic and geographical settings. This comparative approach allows us to explore the different motivations for the ways in which languages interact on the page and reveal contrasting approaches to the role of bilingual picturebooks as tools of language activism and revitalisation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Welsh
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032639017
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2025 13:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177737

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