New Zealand English
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Bibliographic Information
New Zealand English
（Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 25）
John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999
- : eur
- : us
Available at 37 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-354) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English by leading scholars as well as younger specialists in each of the major fields of enquiry. The book is authoritative in its range and represents not only a synopsis of past research, but also new research in many areas of study. It is of interest not just to specialists in regional varieties of English but many of the chapters detail new approaches to the study of dialect phenomena. It contains an introduction describing the external history of New Zealand English and the development of the study of New Zealand English. It comes with a full bibliography of work on New Zealand English and is fully indexed. This book is a significant landmark in the study of English varieties and will prove indispensable for anyone who is a student of English and New Zealand English.
Table of Contents
- 1. Map
- 2. Abbreviations & Glossary
- 3. Phonetic symbols
- 4. 1. New Zealand and New Zealand English (by Kuiper, Koenraad)
- 5. 2. andling New Zealand English lexis (by Deverson, Tony)
- 6. 3. The dialectal origins of New Zealand English (by Bauer, Laurie)
- 7. 4. 'No-one sounds like us?' A comparison of New Zealand and other southern hemiphere Englishes (by Allan, W. Scott)
- 8. 5. New Zealand English across the generations: an analysis of selected vowel and consonant variables (by Woods, Nicola J.)
- 9. 6. The apparent merger of the front centring diphthongs - EAR and AIR - in New Zealand English (by Batterham, Margaret)
- 10. 7. Intonation and prosody in New Zealand English (by Warren, Paul)
- 11. 8. Variation in New Zealand English syntax and morphology (by Quinn, Heidi)
- 12. 9. As far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English with very few tokens is concerned/o (by Britain, David)
- 13. 10. Maori and Pakeha English: a case study (by Bell, Allan)
- 14. 11. Talking Maori or Pakeha in English: signalling identity in discourse (by Stubbe, Maria)
- 15. 12. 'A deep depression covers the South Tasman Sea': New Zealand Meteorological Office weather forecasts (by Hickey, Francesca)
- 16. 13. The cultural cringe revisited: changes through time in Kiwi attitudes toward accents (by Bayard, Donn)
- 17. Bibliography
- 18. Notes on the contributors
- 19. Index
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