Margaret Florey is an Australian linguist whose work focuses on the revitalization and maintenance of Indigenous Australian languages.Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 53, No. 1, SPRING 2011,
positive book review here
Retrieved February 13, 2015, "...continuing and successful efforts to defend the linguistic rights of communities whose languages are truly small and often very endangered.."Thomas Oriti, April 22, 2014, ABC

Retrieved February 13, 2015, "..Linguist Margaret Florey is coordinating the digital archive project....Margaret Florey is hoping to complete high quality digital scans of thousands of documents...."Emma Sleath, 24 April 2014, ABC

Retrieved February 13, 2015, "...Putting these materials online allows community members easy access... said RNLD's Managing Director and Senior Linguist Margaret Florey..."Alice Roberts, 25 January 2012, ABC Capricornia

Retrieved February 13, 2015, ".. Margaret Florey, who runs a national program for training and support for language workers..."Landweer, M. Lynn, 2012, SIL
Review of: Endangered languages of Austronesia, Margaret Florey, editor
Retrieved February 13, 2015, "..The purpose of Florey's book is to canvas a range of language endangerment scenarios encountered across Austronesia ..." She has documented changes in contemporary speech, such as the expression ''Yeah, no'' which is becoming more prevalent in Australia.Bridie Smith, June 11, 2004, The Age

Retrieved February 13, 2015, "...with colleague Margaret Florey wrote Yeah-no he's a good kid: A discourse analysis of yeah-no in Australian English,.."June 19, 2004, The Age

Retrieved February 13, 2015, "..Florey "yeah-no" has become entrenched in Australia over the past six years - and its use is on the increase. Moreover, they maintain that it's a very effective communication tool - not just a glorified "um, ah", but a form of "verbal cuddling"...."David Campbell, June 21, 2004, Sydney Morning Herald

Retrieved February 13, 2015, ".. it might appear instead of "yes" in the answer to the question: Did you enjoy your holiday? "Yeah no, I had a terrific time." ... They argue: "It can emphasise agreement, it can downplay disagreement or compliments and it can soften refusals."..." Florey received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Hawaii. Her linguistic fieldwork experience focuses on endangered Austronesian languages of Central Maluku, eastern Indonesia, and Australian languages of the

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region of Western Australia. She is a co-founder of the

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and is the creator of the Documenting and Revitalising Indigenous Languages Training Program, which has reached over 50 Australian communities. She contributed to international training workshops, including InField: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation (2008, 2010), CoLang: Institute on Collaborative Language Research (2014, 2016, 2018), and the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Institute (2009, 2010). She was the founding co-director (2009-1012) of the ''Consortium for Training in Language Documentation and Conservation'' and has served on its steering committee since 2012. She is a past chair of the ''International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics'' steering committee, the Pacific region delegate for Linguapax, Barcelona, and served on the Board of Governors of Terralingua.

Key publications

* (2018) Florey, M. 'Transforming the landscape of language revitalization work in Australia: The Documenting and Revitalising Indigenous Languages training model'. In Bischoff, S. T. & C. Jany (Eds.) Insights from Practices in Community-Based Research: From Theory To Practice Around The Globe, 314-338. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. * (2010) Florey, M. (ed.). ''Endangered Languages of Austronesia''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * (2007) Florey, M. and V. Rau. (eds) ''Documenting and revitalising Austronesian languages''. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. * (2005) McConvell, P. and M. Florey (eds). Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) ''Australian Journal of Linguistics'' 25 (1). * (2008) 'Language activism and the "new linguistics": Expanding opportunities for documenting endangered languages in Indonesia.' In P.K. Austin (ed.) ''Language Documentation and Description'', Vol. 5, 120-135. London: SOAS. * (1990) Language shift: Changing patterns of language allegiance in western Seram. Unpublished PhD thesis, Honolulu: The University of Hawaii.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Florey, Margaret Living people Linguists from Australia Women linguists Linguists of Austronesian languages Linguists of Australian Aboriginal languages Year of birth missing (living people)