• Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages 

  Dunn, Jonathan (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022)

  This paper uses computational experiments to explore the role of exposure in the emergence of construction grammars. While usage-based grammars are hypothesized to depend on a learner’s exposure to actual language use, the ...

• A Comparison Between News Media Framing of Electric Vehicles and their Usage in Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Bolanos Lopez J (2022)

• HMNZS Royalist : a vessel of compliance : New Zealand and the Suez Canal crisis of 1956 

  Liggett, Fraser Vaughan (2000)

  This thesis illustrates a case study of New Zealand's political and naval involvement during the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, and examines the consequences of small state 'compliance' with the policies of a larger power ...

• Daughters fight the empire : cinematic allegory, family breakdown, and the empire-settler colony relationship 

  Lean, Robyn Elizabeth (2000)

  'Settler' post-colonial theory attributes an importance to the study of white settler cultures struggling to assert their identity from within the double bind of confronting past and present relationships with the indigenous ...

• L.N. Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer sonata" as a work on the body politic 

  Lewis, Brendon (1999)

  This thesis examines L. N. Tolstoy's representation of sexuality in late­ nineteenth-century Russia through his novella, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889).* I draw on recent theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Alphonso Lingis ...

• Seeing Friday : problems of perception and reception in post-colonial theatre 

  Bond, Greta (1998)

  Through his spy-glass, a man watches naked savages dancing on the beach far below. This thesis centres on this iconic scene from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, used as a paradigm for the problems of perception in the theatre. ...

• The rift within : conflicts within the mother-daughter relationship in Indo-English fictional works by selected women authors from 1970 to 2000 

  Roy, Reshmi (2000)

  This thesis researches the fictional portrayals of the conflicts, active and present in mother-daughter relationships, in the works of Indian women authors in English, within the last three decades. A brief socio-historical ...

• The Spartans in Thucydides 

  Lander, Paul James (1999)

  This study will analyse Thucydides' presentation of the Spartans. Does Thucydides present a consistent portrayal of the Spartans or does he evaluate the Spartans' performance case by case? If Thucydides does indeed present ...

• An appeal for a creaturely attitude to animals in Vasily Rozanov's writing 

  Mondry, Henrietta (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 2022)

  <jats:p>The work of Vasily Rozanov offers a relevant case study of our changing relation to natural-cultural contact zones with animals. Rozanov used a comparative approach to human-animal connections to change the societal ...

• AI's Promise: Our post-human future 

  Proudfoot, Diane; Copeland, B. Jack (2012)

  In celebration of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, and motivated by the possibility of living forever in a cyborg body, we’ve given this forum over to refl ection on the future of machine intelligence. Turing is ...

• Heavenly computation: digital metaphysics and the new theology 

  Proudfoot, Diane (Wiley, 2016)

• Rethinking Turing’s Test and the Philosophical Implications 

  Proudfoot, Diane (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)

  © 2020, Springer Nature B.V. In the 70 years since Alan Turing’s ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ appeared in Mind, there have been two widely-accepted interpretations of the Turing test: the canonical behaviourist ...

• The Cogito, Dreamt Characters, and Unreal Existence 

  Turp, Michael-John (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023)

  Borges’ The Circular Ruins tells the story of a magician who turns out to be a character in a dream. Leibowitz (2021) argues that this scenario undermines the rational indubitability of Descartes’ Cogito. The magician, he ...

• Can a Robot Smile? Wittgenstein on Facial Expression 

  Proudfoot, Diane (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

  Some researchers in social robotics aim to build ‘face robots’—machines that interact with human beings (or other robots) by means of facial expression and gesture. They aim, in part, to use these robots to test hypotheses ...

• Civic and ethnic nationalism in Pakistan. 

  Latif, Tayyaba (2022)

  In this thesis, Pakistan's experience with nationalism is studied by highlighting the interplay of civic, ethnic, and religious nationalism. This study also focuses on understanding education's role in creating a shared ...

• Redeveloping Cathedral Square, Christchurch : the English landscape and the maintenance of social control 

  McBride, Benjamin John (1998)

  Changes in the central city of Christchurch over the last decade have followed a similar form to urban trends throughout the capitalist world. These changes include: inner city enhancement, investment into tourism and ...

• Watching the savages dance : problems and possibilities of creating post-colonial performance in a bi-cultural country 

  Cusdin, Michael (1998)

  This thesis will examine the question of how to perform the cultural Other in New Zealand, utilising Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as the text for performance. This text provides a relevance to New Zealand through various ...

• The women of Herodotus' Histories : a view into Athenian society 

  Morrison, Gary Leonard (2000)

• Celebrating women and the goddess : six women's perceptions of goddess spirituality 

  Whitelock, Paula (2000)

  Goddess Spirituality is both a new social movement and a form of spirituality. It has increased in terms of the numbers of members and also in influence. This influence can be measured by its impact on mainstream contemporary ...

• Analysing the EU’s global regulatory actorness and influence : a China case. 

  Liu, Xiyin (2022)

  This thesis is an attempt to contribute to the discussion of the European Union’s (EU) global regulatory actorness and what it means to the current world. It argues that the EU has transcended the role of an influential ...

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