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

[Varieties of English Around the World, G25] 2000. 368 pp.

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

Articles (6) | Order by:

Gibson, Andy and Allan Bell 2012 Popular music singing as referee design Style-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’Town English 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 study New Zealand English, Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), pp. 221–248 | Article

Kuiper, Koenraad and Allan Bell 2000 1. New Zealand and New Zealand English New Zealand English, Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), pp. 11–22 | Article

Bell, Allan 1999 Media Language and Representations of Identity Thema's en trends in de sociolinguïstiek 3, pp. 57–71 | 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

Bell, Allan 1997 The Phonetics of Fish and Chips in New Zealand: Marking National and Ethnic Identities English World-Wide 18:2, pp. 243–270 | Article

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