[PDF] The Dictionary Of New Zealand English eBook

Author : Allan Bell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275475

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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.

Author : H. W. Orsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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The Dictionary of New Zealand English provides a unique historical record of New Zealand words and phrases, from their earliest use to the present day. The 6,000 main headword entries and 9,300 separate sub-entries provide fascinating insights into New Zealand's diverse linguistic heritage. The definitions are illustrated by 47,000 select quotations arranged in chronological order from the earliest to the latest. The origin of each headword is discussed. The Dictionary of New Zealand English is an essential reference for those interested in New Zealand society, history and culture, and makes an invaluable contribution to the study of the English language worldwide.

Author : Graeme D. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :

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The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary is the first large-scale English dictionary especially prepared for New Zealand users. It has been compiled at the New Zealand Dictionary Centre in Wellington, and reflects both the New Zealand Dictionary Centre's research into New Zealand English and research into international English conducted by Oxford dictionary centres worldwide, especially the research for The Oxford English Dictionary . The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary contains over 100,000 definitions, including over 12,000 New Zealand entries and a wide range of encyclopedic information which provide information about the world, especially its notable persons and places. Also included are a series of Appendices which provide historical, geographical and other information, as well as sections on grammar and punctuation. The Appendices also include both the English and Maori versions of the Treaty of Waitangi and the national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.

Author : Tony Deverson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780195584974

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A landmark contribution to New Zealand English, the Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms is the most up to date and comprehensive work of its kind. The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms is a collection of entries for some six and a half thousand distinctive New Zealand words and usages,with around half of that number shown in actual use by way of one or more illustrative quotations from written publications. The dictionary's contents encompass the full range of New Zealandisms, drawn from a wide variety of domains and areas of New Zealand life, and including items both current anddisused, contemporary and historical in reference, colloquial and non-colloquial in style, and borrowed and internally sourced in origin.The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms is the first to represent the entire spectrum of New Zealand English vocabulary since the publication of the late Harry Orsman's monumental Dictionary of New Zealand English in 1997.

Author : Graeme D. Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : New Zealand Sign Language
ISBN : 9781877242113

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Over 26,000 New Zealanders are familiar with New Zealand Sign Language and sign language is increasingly used by mainstream New Zealand. This resource serves as the essential guide to the language for the deaf as well as for students, parents, and teachers. Approximately 2,500 commonly used signs are accompanied by drawings that are easy to follow and the guide's new layout makes the structure of the language clear. Additional learning tools are provided in the introduction.

Author : Jennifer Hay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748630880

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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.

Author : William Williams
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1892
Category : English language
ISBN :

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"Fourth edition of Māori-English, English-Māori dictionary"--BIM.

Author : E. Orsman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1994-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780170132848

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The ready acceptance of the first edition and the up-dating of parts of the research database, plus generous comments and suggestions for improvement allowed the prompt completion of the second edition of this unique dictionary only 15 months after the release of the first. This is now available in a sewn limp-covered edition. The jacketted Library Edition is now out of print. This is the first comprehensive dictionary of distinctive New Zealand English which is one of the youngest regional dialects of English but equal in status with such older regional dialects as those of Britain, North America or Australia. It is obvious that its differences from these other varieties of English must be much fewer than the similarities. However, dialect study tends to focus not on the vast common ground but rather on the distinctive differences in the broad area of spelling, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Most readers rely on the differences in the last two - pronunciation and vocabulary - to indicate the existence of a really distinctive New Zealand dialect. In this respect the special contribution of loanwords from Maori is most noticeable. The dictionary includes the most frequently used words and phrases which are in some way distinctively, and often exclusively, part of the spoken or written language of English-speaking New Zealanders. The dictionary makes the further obvious point that New Zealand English is a national language, one of two recognised by New Zealanders as their own.

Author : Allan Bell
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780864733641

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A linguistic study of New Zealand English, its vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and syntax, with sections on Maori speakers of English, weather forecasters' speech, and shifts in attitudes towards New Zealand speech. The 13 essays are illustrated with graphs and tables, and an extensive bibliography is included.