Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

New Zealand English / Jennifer Hay, Margaret A. Maclagan, Elizabeth Gordon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dialects of English : DIENPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780748625291
  • 9780748630882
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- 1 Geography, Demography and Cultural Factors -- 2 Phonetics and Phonology -- 3 Morphosyntax -- 4 New Zealand Vocabulary and Discourse Features -- 5 The Origins of New Zealand English -- 6 Variation within New Zealand -- 7 Selected Bibliography of Works on New Zealand English -- 8 Sample Texts -- Bibliography of Cited Works -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748625307');This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these. For the past two decades extensive research has focused on the evolution and ongoing development of the variety. New Zealand English presents the results of this research in an accessible way.Key FeaturesA succinct but comprehensive account of the phonetic, phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical and discourse features which are characteristic of the dialect.A discussion of the historical development of New Zealand English.A description of the current social and regional variation within the variety.An indication of the areas where change is currently occurring. Sample texts and an annotated bibliography of relevant literature.There are also several associated audio files, which provide examples of many of the phenomena discussed: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/dialects/"
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748630882

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- 1 Geography, Demography and Cultural Factors -- 2 Phonetics and Phonology -- 3 Morphosyntax -- 4 New Zealand Vocabulary and Discourse Features -- 5 The Origins of New Zealand English -- 6 Variation within New Zealand -- 7 Selected Bibliography of Works on New Zealand English -- 8 Sample Texts -- Bibliography of Cited Works -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748625307');This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these. For the past two decades extensive research has focused on the evolution and ongoing development of the variety. New Zealand English presents the results of this research in an accessible way.Key FeaturesA succinct but comprehensive account of the phonetic, phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical and discourse features which are characteristic of the dialect.A discussion of the historical development of New Zealand English.A description of the current social and regional variation within the variety.An indication of the areas where change is currently occurring. Sample texts and an annotated bibliography of relevant literature.There are also several associated audio files, which provide examples of many of the phenomena discussed: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/dialects/"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)