Allan Bell

List of John Benjamins publications for which Allan Bell plays a role.

Title

New Zealand English

Edited by Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Gibson, Andy and Allan Bell 2012 Popular music singing as referee designStyle-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.), pp. 139–164 | Article
Gibson, Andy and Allan Bell 2010 Performing Pasifika English in New Zealand: The case of bro’TownEnglish World-Wide 31:3, pp. 231–251 | Article
bro’Town is a popular animated comedy whose language is that of stylized performance. It deals with the adventures of a group of five teenage Pasifika boys growing up in Auckland, New Zealand, and showcases performances of the Englishes spoken by Polynesian immigrants and their descendants. A… read more
Bell, Allan 2000 10. Maori and Pakeha English: a case studyNew Zealand English, Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), pp. 221–248 | Article
Kuiper, Koenraad and Allan Bell 2000 1. New Zealand and New Zealand EnglishNew Zealand English, Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), pp. 11–22 | Article
The use of language in the mass media is an act of identity. The media offer us representations of the identities of groups and individuals, and are even implicated in the very nature of contemporary identity. Drawing on the work of the British socio-logist Anthony Giddens on late modernity, this… read more
Centralization of the short /I/ vowel (as in KIT) is regarded by both linguists and lay observers as a defining feature of New Zealand English and even of national identity, especially when contrasted with the close front Australian realization. Variation in the KIT vowel is studied in the… read more