New Zealand English
This text is an account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English, by both established and younger scholars. It considers what Lass calls the internal and external histories of this branch of English, discussing the origins and evolution of the language as it was and is used in New Zealand.
366 pages : illustrations maps ; 22 cm.
9781556197239, 9789027248831, 1556197233, 9027248834
42072204
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