Cultural variation in New Zealand English stories about place

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12132467
AutoresMarta Degani (0000-0003-2478-9870, Department of English University of Klagenfurt Klagenfurt Austria, autor correspondente), Alexander Onysko (0000-0002-4879-3527, Department of English University of Klagenfurt Klagenfurt Austria)
Ano2024
Volume43
Fascículo3
Páginas399-413
Data de publicação2024-05-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Englishes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/weng.12659
OpenAlexW4396974134
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas40

This study is set in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand and investigates the influence of cultural knowledge on the type of topics that speakers of New Zealand Englishes (NZEs) associate to in their narrations. A storytelling task based on picture prompts of New Zealand landscapes shows a major difference between the cultural associations of Māori and Pākehā (New Zealand European) participants. The difference can be captured in two cultural frames that underlie the preferred topics chosen by the two groups. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for defining NZEs, and they also bear ramifications for theory development in Cultural Linguistics, highlighting the nested and flexibly construable nature of cultural conceptualisations. For research on world Englishes, the study is an example of how cultural‐linguistic analyses can be extended towards larger cultural framings to explain cultural variation among speakers of Englishes

Aotearoa · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Cultural diversity · Linguistics · Narrative · Sociology · Storytelling · Variation (astronomy · World Englishes · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy