This study focuses on one Truku (Indigenous)village in eastern Taiwan and aims to understand the pro-cesses and possibilities of bottom-up language policy for-mation and implementation. In 2012, the first authorassisted the villagers to start a community-driven languagerevitalization initiative. Drawing on scholarship guided bycritical Indigenous research methodologies, and criticalsociocultural approaches to language policy and planning,this paper continues the conversation about the complexand dynamic processes of collaboration and relationshipbuilding in developing bottom-up language revitalization.Affirming the role of relationship in collaboration, thestudy argues that it is the dialogue of individuals’ inter-secting social positions that makes relationship buildingpossible. The newly developed relationship further trans-forms each other’s position(s) in praxis. As the dichotomybetween the researched and the researchers is blurred, theauthors further argue that the relationship comes along withresponsibility, challenging the silenced dialogue of “exit-ing” in traditional research ethics. Methodologically, thisstudy contributes to the scholarship of language policy andplanning by exploring an alternative, democratic, human-izing way of doing language policy and planning researchthat prioritizes local knowledge, voice, and engagement.Additionally, drawn from Indigenous epistemology, therecognition of human relationships in praxis criticallyfeatures the affective dimension of LPP, offering a moreholistic and developmental understanding of the process.

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