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New Zealand English
Jennifer Hay
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Description for New Zealand English
Hardback. An accessible overview of the state of current knowledge about English as it is spoken in New Zealand. Editor(s): Beal, Joan; Honeybone, Patrick; McMahon, April. Series: Dialects of English. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 B&W. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; CF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Dialects of English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748625291
SKU
V9780748625291
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99-50
About Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Margaret A. Maclagan is Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Canterbury Elizabeth Gordon is Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury
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