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Women's experiences of intimate partner violence in rural Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand
(2019)INTRODUCTION: Traditionally, research about intimate partner violence has focused on urban areas and has been urban-centric. However, there are some components of intimate partner violence in rural communities which are ... -
'It's not something one can deliberately set out to do': Christian Wolff in conversation
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018)ABSTRACT: In 2002 Christian Wolff was a guest composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and during the course of the festival he was interviewed by Christopher Fox and by James Gardner. Fox's interview took ... -
Contested language use in ethnic media: A case study of New Zealand’s Pacific media
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)New Zealand’s Pacific communities face significant generational language loss and their media are increasingly produced in English, raising questions about the centrality of language for ethnic media and their audiences. ... -
An Evaluative Norm for Belief
(2017)It is often argued that belief is partly constituted by a norm of truth. Most recent discussions have assumed that the norm is deontic; concerning what may or ought to be believed. I criticize two proposals, one canvassed ... -
Tape Leaders: A Compendium of Early British Electronic Music Composers by Ian Helliwell (Book review)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)In my early teens, a formative reference book was the Illustrated NME Encyclopedia of Rock1, a jumping-off point for the discovery of all manner of bands. Ian Helliwell’s Tape Leaders strongly reminded me of that tome. His ... -
Even Orpheus Needs a Synthi
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)Abstract: In recent years there has been an increase in the quantity, if not necessarily the quality, of scholarly and popular writing on the histories of electronic music in Britain. In this literature, the contributions ... -
South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English.
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Review of: South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English. By Carolin Biewer. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. xvi +351. ISBN: ... -
The journeys of besieged languages
(Project Muse, 2017)Review of: Delyn Day, Poia Rewi, and Rawinia Higgins, eds. 2016. The journeys of besieged languages. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. xii + 349 pp. ISBN 978-1-4438-9943-7. -
Rethinking Journalism and Culture: An examination of how Pacific audiences evaluate ethnic media
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Studies of indigenous and ethnic minority news media tend to emphasise their political advocacy role, their role in providing a voice to communities overlooked by mainstream media and, increasingly, ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
How linguistic structure influences and helps to predict metaphoric meaning
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2013)This paper argues that two properties of the linguistic structure of an utterance influence and partially determine whether the utterance has a metaphoric meaning that results in a stable interpretation: (i) degree of ... -
Multi-unit association measures: Moving beyond pairs of words
(2018)This paper formulates and evaluates a series of multi-unit measures of directional association, building on the pairwise ΔP measure, that are able to quantify association in sequences of varying length and type ... -
Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora
(2019)This paper evaluates large georeferenced corpora, taken from both web-crawled and social media sources, against ground-truth population and language-census datasets. The goal is to determine (i) which dataset best ...
