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English Today, 2003
NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH is one of the most closely studied national varieties of English outside of the USA and UK, and a source of significance for the dialect differentiation and historical evolution of English. Most of the work has been done in the relatively short period of about 15 years compared with the longer time frame of studies in British and ...
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NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH is one of the most closely studied national varieties of English outside of the USA and UK, and a source of significance for the dialect differentiation and historical evolution of English. Most of the work has been done in the relatively short period of about 15 years compared with the longer time frame of studies in British and ...
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Apologies in New Zealand English
Language in Society, 1990ABSTRACTThe function of apologies is discussed within the context of a model of interaction with two intersecting dimensions – affective and referential meaning. Apologies are defined as primarily social acts conveying affective meaning. The syntactic, semantic, and sociolinguistic features of apologies are described, based on a corpus of 183 apologies.
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Australian and New Zealand Englishes
2014Australian and New Zealand Englishes have a great deal in common, as well as differences between them. In this chapter, the commonalities are considered, as well as the differences in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Some of the commonalities are instances in which both varieties seem to have developed in the same direction, rather than ...
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The phonemes of New Zealand English
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1966The New Zealand accent belongs to the British group of English accents. There are three main divisions: General New Zealand, which is spoken in most parts of the country, and the accents of Otago, in the south of the South Island, and on the West Coast of the South Island. The three divisions follow the original pattern of settlement.
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English in Australia and New Zealand
2015Under the Australian Federal system of government, education has been largely the separate concern of the six states and two territories. These eight systems have historically designed and implemented their own curricula and administered their own education bureaucracies. However, at the time ofwriting, moves away from this history of curriculum design
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On the Origins of the New Zealand English Accent
English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 1999In this paper it is argued that the New Zealand English accent is a mixed accent in origin, showing input from many areas in England south of a line from Cheshire to the Wash. It is argued that attributing the accent to more specific areas in England is possible only if some of the phonetic evidence is ignored. Accordingly, the notion of swamping (Lass
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