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Heritage language maintenance in New Zealand : the case of Hebrew.
(2023)This thesis explores how Israeli immigrants in New Zealand approach the maintenance of Hebrew, their heritage language. These families are in the unique position of having to navigate religious as well as cultural, familial ... -
Documenting Horror in Häxan
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Ni Una Más, Ni Una Menos: Analysing Media Framing of Femicide in Pandemic-Era Spain
(2022)In the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, there were 161 femicides recorded in Spain. While women were locked inside their houses to keep themselves safe from one pandemic, they were in danger of being killed by ... -
The roles of G.W. Forbes and J.G. Coates in the formation of the coalition government, the 1931 and the 1935 general elections
(1985)George William Forbes and Joseph Gordon Coates were the two central figures in the Coalition Government of 1931-1935. Forbes was the Prime Minister, while Coates was the Minister of Finance, during the Great Depression. ... -
Dressing for success in medieval France: the function of fashion in Christine de Pizan’s oeuvre
(2022)Christine de Pizan has attracted recent scholarship as both Europe’s first ‘proto-feminist’ and as a prolific medieval writer. Fashion plays a prominent role in both the text and imagery of her manuscripts, yet this aspect ... -
The impact of Brexit on the economic, political and social relationship between Japan and the European Union.
(2022)In 2006, the President of the EU commission stated, “Japan is back” in a document discussing the potential of the relationship. However, years of inaction and wasted potential have followed. Within the EU, the UK always ... -
Trans women and non-binary people locating, negotiating, and maintaining social relationships.
(2022)This qualitative research into the daily lives of 50 mainly older trans women and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand explored aspects of their social relationships in a society which has many different ethnicities ... -
The impact of language internal and external factors on community language acquisition by Japanese-Brazilian Portuguese bilingual children in Japan.
(2023)This thesis explores the acquisition of Japanese word order variation and morphological marking of noun phrases with case and topic particles by two Japanese-Brazilian Portuguese (BP) bilingual children. There are more ... -
The modern movement in Canterbury : the architecture of Paul Pascoe
(1986)When Paul Pascoe returned to New Zealand from England in 1933 he had received better first hand experience of modern architecture than probably any other New Zealand architect of his generation. This thesis examines the ... -
‘Not’ Funny? Humour, embarrassment, and the ‘Wicked Bible’
(2022)The ‘Wicked Bible’ of 1631 is a fascinating and rare book, made popular and amusing in modern times through its omission of the word ‘not’ from the seventh commandment, rendering it “Thou shalt commit adultery.” (Exodus ... -
‘Sisters in the Work’: Māori and Pākehā Women of the WCTU (1892-1918)
(2022)In the mid-1890s, after women’s enfranchisement was achieved, the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) began to actively recruit Māori women to their organisation. In this thesis it is argued that through ... -
Swarming with bees : property predication and the swarm alternation
(2002)This thesis examines the swarm alternation. The previous literature and analyses are reviewed and critically evaluated. A data investigation is also discussed with the conclusions from the data examination informing the ... -
Special research paper
(1973)A review of the literature on therapist variables in counselling and therapy; a comparison of the responses of two therapists who conducted one interview each with the same client -
The landed gentry of lowlands Ashburton County, 1890-1896
(1974)The large landowners of the south are a group of vital importance to the study of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Throughout the colonial period they played a heavily disproportionate role in the country’s politics, commerce, ... -
New Zealand women in the design industry
(1999)The aim of this research project has been to interview women working in and around the design industry. From the transcribed material I have explored and analysed their experiences and perceptions, in order to gain a better ... -
Elderly Financial Abuse in New Zealand: Is the Law Sufficient?
(2022)Older citizens can become victims of an alarming amount of criminal and fraudulent behaviour in New Zealand (NZ) and throughout the world. Their estates, life savings and even their welfare incomes are stolen, plundered ... -
Indigenous Wāhine Talking Critically in the Museum Space
(Berghahn Journals, 2022)<jats:p>As greater numbers of community groups experience social disconnect, museums need to find better methods of engagement in order to remain relevant. We know that museums are no longer neutral spaces; in fact, they ... -
Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages
(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 ... -
HMNZS Royalist : a vessel of compliance : New Zealand and the Suez Canal crisis of 1956
(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 ...