College of Arts: Recent submissions
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“We’re looking out through a window to a field of weeds and sand and stones”: The Stadium Broadcast, a Radio Memorial
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This paper explores the scope of small-scale radio to create an auditory geography of place. It focuses on the short term art radio project The Stadium Broadcast, which was staged in November 2014 in an earthquake-damaged ... -
Journalistic boundary work at a time of professional crisis
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2016)This research explores how news bloggers and mainstream news journalists discursively constructed the doxa of journalism, as well as their own efforts to reinscribe their activities as being positioned inside or outside ... -
Cultivating the Cultural Memory of Ranunculus Paucifolius T. Kirk, a South Island Subalpine Buttercup.
(ANU Press, 2017)Building from an idea outlined in Libby Robin’s landmark study How a Continent Created a Nation (2007), this article traces shifting European attitudes towards Ranunculus paucifolius, a rare subalpine buttercup, from ... -
We wanted to choose us: how embryo donors choose recipients for their surplus embryos
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)© 2018 Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology. Objective: This study aimed to explore factors affecting donors’ choice of recipients for their surplus embryos in the New Zealand context of conditional, known ... -
One Belt, Competing Metaphors: The Struggle Over Strategic Narrative in English-Language News Media
(2018)This article studies the reception by English-language news media of a strategic narrative deployed by the Chinese state to reposition China in the world. Metaphor analysis is conducted on 816 articles from six countries ... -
Warring memories: Japan’s battle between remembering and forgetting.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In 1945, Japan was bombed into submission by the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This ended a period in Japan’s history notorious for aggression, atrocities, and the victimisation of East Asian ... -
Suburban homeownership & class identification : are two-bob tories a myth in New Zealand?
(University of Canterbury, 1977)The growing structural complexity of developed post-capitalist societies has led many political theorists to add numerous qualifications to the assumed salience of relationships to 'property' in the shaping of social, and ... -
The organizational-level communication of African LGBT refugee NGOs on social media
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2016)Due to the extraordinary odds of successful refugee status and because lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) asylum seekers are often completely isolated in their search for refugee status, there is a heightened ... -
Ethical espresso? : exploring the extent to which the European Union supports the Fair Trade coffee industry and the potential for an EU Fair Trade coffee policy.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Coffee is consumed daily by many citizens of the European Union (EU) and plays an important cultural role in bringing people together for social interactions. However, as consumption of this beverage continues to grow, a ... -
Democratic Belief, Cognitive Mobilization and Political Participation in Taiwan
(2017)Like many democratic and developing countries, Taiwan has faced declining turnout. For example, the turnout rate of the latest presidential election is 66.27 percent, which is lower than that four year ago by 8 percent. ... -
An historical study of the Proto-Indo-European nominal derivational morpheme *-ti-.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In this thesis I shall be discussing the nominal derivation suffix in *-ti- which has a fairly major role in many of the so-called “late” Proto-Indo-European (Proto-Indo-European hereafter may be abbreviated as PIE) ... -
Everything but democracy and human rights : EU conditionality in Cambodia : effectiveness of EU conditionality as a mechanism to promote democracy and human rights in Cambodia in the context of the everything but arms agreement withdrawal.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Development assistance is a vital feature of the international system in the pursuit of a better world for all. The European Union (EU) and its Member States form one of the world’s largest development aid donor body’s, ... -
Acoustic convergence : exploring the influence of ambient noise on speech production.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Increasing work across disciplines has recognized various ways in which people can be influenced by aspects of their surroundings. In fact, people have even been found at times to take on certain properties of the environment ... -
Climate change adaptation programs in the Solomon Islands : a study of perceptions and relationships.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis looks at perceptions and relationship of those involved in climate change adaption programmes in the Solomon Islands. Climate change adaptation (CCA) programs have become a major part of donor response to climate ... -
What Metaphor Identification Systems Can Tell Us About Metaphor-in-Language
(2013)This paper evaluates four metaphor identification systems on the 200,000 word VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus, comparing results by genre and by sub-class of metaphor. The paper then compares the rate of agreement between ... -
Multi-Dimensional Abstractness in Cross-Domain Mappings
(2014)Metaphor is a cognitive process that shapes abstract target concepts by mapping them to concrete source concepts. Thus, many computational approaches to metaphor make reference, directly or indirectly, to the abstractness ... -
Modeling the Complexity and Descriptive Adequacy of Construction Grammars
(2018)This paper uses the Minimum Description Length paradigm to model the complexity of CxGs (operationalized as the encoding size of a grammar) alongside their descriptive adequacy (operationalized as the encoding size of a ... -
Language-Independent Ensemble Approaches to Metaphor Identification
(2014)True natural language understanding requires the ability to identify and understand metaphorical utterances, which are ubiquitous in human communication of all kinds. At present, however, even the problem of identifying ...
