Allan Bell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3592018 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Allan Bell |
| PRENOMES | Allan |
| SOBRENOME | Bell |
| ASSINATURA | BELL A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1563-8923 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 600 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Knowledge attributes of public health management information systems used in health emergencies
Introduction: Learning from public health emergencies has not always been possible due to suboptimal knowledge accrual from previous outbreaks. This study described the knowledge attributes of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) that are currently used during health emergencies. It aims to inform the development of a "nuggets of knowledge" (NoK) platform to support agile decision-making and knowledge continuity following health emergenci…
Simulation exercises and after action reviews – analysis of outputs during 2016–2019 to strengthen global health emergency preparedness and response
BACKGROUND: Under the International Health Regulations (2005) [IHR (2005)] Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, after action reviews (AAR) and simulation exercises (SimEx) are two critical components which measure the functionality of a country's health emergency preparedness and response under a "real-life" event or simulated situation. The objective of this study was to describe the AAR and SimEx supported by the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Crossing the gain line
Hosting the Rugby World Cup in 2011 offered a chance for New Zealand to showcase itself on the world stage, but also provided immigrants to the country an opening to assert their legitimate place in the nation. We present the particular case of Leslie, a Filipina migrant, and her Facebook activities during the tournament. Approaching these texts through the frameworks of liminality and timescale-differentiated identity construction along with Soc…
New Editor appointed
Giving voice
From the vantage point of 21 years editing theJournal of Sociolinguistics, I survey and assess the shape of our field. I identify six strands or trends that I see in play over that time: languageandsociety, social theorization, the centralization of style, diversification, new orthodoxies and a sense of history. I advocate in particular for a sociolinguistics of voice, especially so the voices that are unheard or muffled in society may be given a…
How to get published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics
Labov in sociolinguistics
This theme issue marks fifty years since the publication of William Labov's Social Stratification of English in New York City, the foundation study of variationist sociolinguistics. This Introduction offers the editors' rationale for the shape of the issue. We briefly survey the innovations and impact of the New York study, together with the subsequent development of the field by Labov and others. We then touch on several strands of Labov's contr…
News Discourse
Applied linguists have long been intrigued by the language and discourse of news media.
Re-constructing Babel
This article questions the aptness of ‘discourse analysis’ as a label for our field, and prefers the less reductionist concept of ‘Discourse Interpretation’. It does this through drawing on ideas from the field of philosophical hermeneutics - the theory and practice of interpreting texts. It operationalizes and adapts the construct of the Interpretive Arc from the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur in order to address issues that are central to discourse…
On responsiveness
The nine responses to my focus article ‘Re-constructing Babel: Discourse analysis, hermeneutics and the Interpretive Arc’ are cross-disciplinary, as is the article itself. They come from discourse studies (Van Dijk, Billig, Wodak), cognitive science (Tepe, Yeari and Van den Broek, Van Dijk), Old Testament studies (Billig), hermeneutics (Pellauer, Scott-Baumann), history (Gardner) and literature (Pratt). I identify and address five main issues whi…
Falling in love again and again
Icons are those stars who have become widely established and circulated as enduring international cult figures. Numbered among these is Marlene Dietrich, one of a class of international performers who present in English although not native speakers. Her performances can be theorized as Referee Design, by which speakers target linguistic codes other than their own. Dietrich came to stardom in the 1930 German-made film,The Blue Angel, which provide…
Staging language
Staged performance involves the overt, scheduled identification and elevation of one or more people to perform, with a clearly demarcated distinction between them and the audience. It involves the agentive use of language, building on the foundation of existing social meanings. Staged performances tend to be linguistically stylized, pushing the limits of language creativity. They have the potential to trigger significant sociolinguistic effects, …
How to get published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics
At the Journal of Sociolinguistics, we receive many, many more submissions than we publish. Over the past year, we in the editorial team have surveyed our experience of incoming papers. We have put together the following list of features that will maximize your chances of having a paper accepted for publication with us. While a few of the points below apply specifically to our Journal, we think most of them are general academic good practice. We …
Performing Pasifika English in New Zealand
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 range of varieties are performed on the show by a handful of actors. We analyzed several linguistic variables in the speech of three of the main characters …
Language Style as Audience Design
Linguists and Language Maintenance
Linguists and Language Maintenance:Pasifika Languages in Manukau, New Zealand1 Melenaite Taumoefolau, Donna Starks, Karen Davis, and Allan Bell Abstract Manukau City is the most language-rich area in New Zealand, yet it has to date not been the subject of any detailed sociolinguistic study. This paper reports on pilot work for a major project on the languages of Manukau, and addresses the question of whether linguists can contribute to language m…
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Dialogue
New Zealand English
Styling the other to define the self
In the Audience Design framework, the initiative dimension of language style encompasses the performance of a language or variety other than one's own. The concept of Referee Design complements the responsive, audience-designed dimension of style. I argue that the responsive/initiative distinction is an instance of the structure/agency duality recognized in social theory. I examine a series of New Zealand television advertisements which make an o…
Text, Time and Technology in News English
This first chapter considers some of the ways in which the English language is used in international news. English has been extraordinarily important in the development and diffusion of news practices and news conventions, as the forms of modern journalism were largely developed in the English language. It was the rise of daily newspapers in English-speaking countries that helped define the nature of modern news and news stories. Still more stron…
The Phonetics of Fish and Chips in New Zealand
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 conversation of a sociolinguistic sample of 60 speakers of NZE, structured by gender, ethnicity (Maori and Pakeha [Anglo]) and age. KIT realizations are scatte…
News Time
The news is one kind of story, and time is a basic element of story. A feature of all kinds of stories is their chronological time structure: events tend to be told in the order in which they happened. Although when is one of the journalist's basic facts, news stories follow a radically different ordering. They begin generally with the most recent event and cycle back through earlier events, giving information in instalments. This makes news disc…
Media (mis)communication on the science of climate change
Climate change has been widely reported as a scientific and environmental issue. In six months' news coverage of climate change in New Zealand, reporting of basic scientific facts was overwhelmingly accurate. News sources rated over 80% of stories no worse than slightly inaccurate. However, one story in six contained significant misreporting. Some stories overstated the advance of climate change or confused ozone depletion and the greenhouse effe…
Climate of Opinion
Global environmental issues are among the most serious problems facing humankind at the end of the 20th century. This research focuses on what people understand about climate change. It compares the New Zealand public's discourse on climate change with media coverage in the preceding year. Instances of overstatement, over-certainty and confusion in the media texts are identified and analysed. There remains considerable mismatch between media repo…
Language style as audience design
The style dimension of language variation has not been adequately explained in sociolinguistic theory. Stylistic or intraspeaker variation derives from and mirrors interspeaker variation. Style is essentially speakers' response to their audience. In audience design, speakers accommodate primarily to their addressee. Third persons - auditors and overhearers - affect style to a lesser but regular degree. Audience design also accounts for bilingual …
Staging language
Staged performance involves the overt, scheduled identification and elevation of one or more people to perform, with a clearly demarcated distinction between them and the audience. It involves the agentive use of language, building on the foundation of existing social meanings. Staged performances tend to be linguistically stylized, pushing the limits of language creativity. They have the potential to trigger significant sociolinguistic effects, …
Styling the other to define the self
In the Audience Design framework, the initiative dimension of language style encompasses the performance of a language or variety other than one's own. The concept of Referee Design complements the responsive, audience-designed dimension of style. I argue that the responsive/initiative distinction is an instance of the structure/agency duality recognized in social theory. I examine a series of New Zealand television advertisements which make an o…
Climate of Opinion
Global environmental issues are among the most serious problems facing humankind at the end of the 20th century. This research focuses on what people understand about climate change. It compares the New Zealand public's discourse on climate change with media coverage in the preceding year. Instances of overstatement, over-certainty and confusion in the media texts are identified and analysed. There remains considerable mismatch between media repo…
News Time
The news is one kind of story, and time is a basic element of story. A feature of all kinds of stories is their chronological time structure: events tend to be told in the order in which they happened. Although when is one of the journalist's basic facts, news stories follow a radically different ordering. They begin generally with the most recent event and cycle back through earlier events, giving information in instalments. This makes news disc…
Hit and miss
Performing Pasifika English in New Zealand
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 range of varieties are performed on the show by a handful of actors. We analyzed several linguistic variables in the speech of three of the main characters …
Falling in love again and again
Icons are those stars who have become widely established and circulated as enduring international cult figures. Numbered among these is Marlene Dietrich, one of a class of international performers who present in English although not native speakers. Her performances can be theorized as Referee Design, by which speakers target linguistic codes other than their own. Dietrich came to stardom in the 1930 German-made film,The Blue Angel, which provide…
H‐droppin’
The paper reports findings from the first large‐scale sociolinguistic investigation of conversational New Zealand English. We examine two sociolinguistic variables from interviews with 75 mainly working‐class speakers and compare them with other dialects of English. Our findings challenge the view that NZE has little or no dropping of word‐initial /h/. We found a modest mean level of HDROP among our speakers ‐ much less than found in Britain, but…
Labov in sociolinguistics
This theme issue marks fifty years since the publication of William Labov's Social Stratification of English in New York City, the foundation study of variationist sociolinguistics. This Introduction offers the editors' rationale for the shape of the issue. We briefly survey the innovations and impact of the New York study, together with the subsequent development of the field by Labov and others. We then touch on several strands of Labov's contr…
Re-constructing Babel
This article questions the aptness of ‘discourse analysis’ as a label for our field, and prefers the less reductionist concept of ‘Discourse Interpretation’. It does this through drawing on ideas from the field of philosophical hermeneutics - the theory and practice of interpreting texts. It operationalizes and adapts the construct of the Interpretive Arc from the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur in order to address issues that are central to discourse…
On shear markets and sharing sheep
A social dialect survey of a New Zealand community documented a change in progress in the pronunciation of the vowels in words such as air and ear . The data support a tentative interpretation that a shift to the variant with the closer onset for AIR words was initiated by middle-aged Pakeha women. This was not followed in any strength by other social groups. More recently there has been a change in the opposite direction, with EAR words being re…
The British Base and the American Connection in New Zealand Media English
T HERE IS A SYNTACTIC RULE in the language of news reporting which goes unnoticed in the United States but is regarded by other English speakers as a hallmark of American journalistic The rule deletes the determiner in appositional naming expressions of the form (the) race relations conciliator Hiwi Tauroa; (a) local resident Beth Anderson; (his) 'Chips'series co-star Erik Estrada. American informants confirm that they find determiner deletion in…
Giving voice
From the vantage point of 21 years editing theJournal of Sociolinguistics, I survey and assess the shape of our field. I identify six strands or trends that I see in play over that time: languageandsociety, social theorization, the centralization of style, diversification, new orthodoxies and a sense of history. I advocate in particular for a sociolinguistics of voice, especially so the voices that are unheard or muffled in society may be given a…
The Phonetics of Fish and Chips in New Zealand
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 conversation of a sociolinguistic sample of 60 speakers of NZE, structured by gender, ethnicity (Maori and Pakeha [Anglo]) and age. KIT realizations are scatte…
Telling It Like It Isn'T
Broadcast news as a language standard
Dialogue
This Isn't the BBC
This Isn't the BBC
This Isn't the BBC: Colonialism in New Zealand English1 Get access ALLAN BELL ALLAN BELL Wellington, New Zealand; and Center for Applied LinguisticsWashington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume III, Issue 3, Autumn 1982, Pages 246–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/III.3.246 Published: 01 October 1982
Radio
Journal Article Radio: The Style of News Language Get access Allan Bell Allan Bell 1Allan Bell is Visiting Research Associate at the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C., for 1981, on leave from New Zealand, where he works as an editor. In 1982 he will be Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, University of Reading, England. The work described in this article was supported in part by a postgraduate scholarship of the New Zealand University Grant…
Telling It Like It Isn'T
Broadcast news as a language standard
Language style as audience design
The style dimension of language variation has not been adequately explained in sociolinguistic theory. Stylistic or intraspeaker variation derives from and mirrors interspeaker variation. Style is essentially speakers' response to their audience. In audience design, speakers accommodate primarily to their addressee. Third persons - auditors and overhearers - affect style to a lesser but regular degree. Audience design also accounts for bilingual …
The British Base and the American Connection in New Zealand Media English
T HERE IS A SYNTACTIC RULE in the language of news reporting which goes unnoticed in the United States but is regarded by other English speakers as a hallmark of American journalistic The rule deletes the determiner in appositional naming expressions of the form (the) race relations conciliator Hiwi Tauroa; (a) local resident Beth Anderson; (his) 'Chips'series co-star Erik Estrada. American informants confirm that they find determiner deletion in…
Ralph Fasold, The sociolinguistics of society. Oxford and New York
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On shear markets and sharing sheep
A social dialect survey of a New Zealand community documented a change in progress in the pronunciation of the vowels in words such as air and ear . The data support a tentative interpretation that a shift to the variant with the closer onset for AIR words was initiated by middle-aged Pakeha women. This was not followed in any strength by other social groups. More recently there has been a change in the opposite direction, with EAR words being re…
H‐droppin’
The paper reports findings from the first large‐scale sociolinguistic investigation of conversational New Zealand English. We examine two sociolinguistic variables from interviews with 75 mainly working‐class speakers and compare them with other dialects of English. Our findings challenge the view that NZE has little or no dropping of word‐initial /h/. We found a modest mean level of HDROP among our speakers ‐ much less than found in Britain, but…
Hit and miss
Media (mis)communication on the science of climate change
Climate change has been widely reported as a scientific and environmental issue. In six months' news coverage of climate change in New Zealand, reporting of basic scientific facts was overwhelmingly accurate. News sources rated over 80% of stories no worse than slightly inaccurate. However, one story in six contained significant misreporting. Some stories overstated the advance of climate change or confused ozone depletion and the greenhouse effe…
Climate of Opinion
Global environmental issues are among the most serious problems facing humankind at the end of the 20th century. This research focuses on what people understand about climate change. It compares the New Zealand public's discourse on climate change with media coverage in the preceding year. Instances of overstatement, over-certainty and confusion in the media texts are identified and analysed. There remains considerable mismatch between media repo…
The Language of News Media
List of Figures and Tables. Editora s Preface. 1. Media and Language. 1.1. Why Study Media Language?. 1.2. Media Language Research and the disciplines. 1.3. Themes of the book. 2. Researching Media Language. 2.1. Universe and sample. 2.2. Whata s news: defining genres. 2.3. News outlets. 2.4. News outputs. 2.5. Pitfalls, shortcuts and the wrong way round. 2.6. The media react to research. 3. The Production of News Language. 3.1. Many hands make t…
News Time
The news is one kind of story, and time is a basic element of story. A feature of all kinds of stories is their chronological time structure: events tend to be told in the order in which they happened. Although when is one of the journalist's basic facts, news stories follow a radically different ordering. They begin generally with the most recent event and cycle back through earlier events, giving information in instalments. This makes news disc…
Text, Time and Technology in News English
This first chapter considers some of the ways in which the English language is used in international news. English has been extraordinarily important in the development and diffusion of news practices and news conventions, as the forms of modern journalism were largely developed in the English language. It was the rise of daily newspapers in English-speaking countries that helped define the nature of modern news and news stories. Still more stron…
The Phonetics of Fish and Chips in New Zealand
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 conversation of a sociolinguistic sample of 60 speakers of NZE, structured by gender, ethnicity (Maori and Pakeha [Anglo]) and age. KIT realizations are scatte…
Styling the other to define the self
In the Audience Design framework, the initiative dimension of language style encompasses the performance of a language or variety other than one's own. The concept of Referee Design complements the responsive, audience-designed dimension of style. I argue that the responsive/initiative distinction is an instance of the structure/agency duality recognized in social theory. I examine a series of New Zealand television advertisements which make an o…
New Zealand English
Dialogue
Linguists and Language Maintenance
Linguists and Language Maintenance:Pasifika Languages in Manukau, New Zealand1 Melenaite Taumoefolau, Donna Starks, Karen Davis, and Allan Bell Abstract Manukau City is the most language-rich area in New Zealand, yet it has to date not been the subject of any detailed sociolinguistic study. This paper reports on pilot work for a major project on the languages of Manukau, and addresses the question of whether linguists can contribute to language m…
Back in style
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Language Style as Audience Design
Performing Pasifika English in New Zealand
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 range of varieties are performed on the show by a handful of actors. We analyzed several linguistic variables in the speech of three of the main characters …
Re-constructing Babel
This article questions the aptness of ‘discourse analysis’ as a label for our field, and prefers the less reductionist concept of ‘Discourse Interpretation’. It does this through drawing on ideas from the field of philosophical hermeneutics - the theory and practice of interpreting texts. It operationalizes and adapts the construct of the Interpretive Arc from the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur in order to address issues that are central to discourse…
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