Blog Archives
Issue 18 | June 1995
Volume 5 | Number 2 | Issue 18 | June 1995 Letters David Britain: Donn Bayard, Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society Janet Holmes: ‘Hosing, hedging and hornets’ nests: linguistics and social responsibility’ – excerpts from her professorial inaugural address…
Letters – Issue 18
For the record I’d like to correct Alan Loney’s interpretation of the Landfall grant figures supplied to him by the Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand), in your March 1995 issue. Landfall has had a turbulent administrative history in recent…
Exploding the myths of newzilnspeak, David Britain
Kiwitalk: Sociolinguistics and New Zealand Society Donn Bayard Dunmore Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 86469 220 X Among the many revolutions that took place in New Zealand in the 1980s, one was sociolinguistic. Twenty years ago, very little had been written…
Tagged with: David Britain, Donn Bayard, Dunmore Press, Issue 18, Winter 1995
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
One of Us, Anne Else
Whatever political correctness (PC) is, it has become prominent in the media. A search of 33 United States metropolitan papers showed a sudden leap in references to it, from 638 in 1990 to 3877 in 1991. No one has tracked…
Necessity or choice, Bill Oliver
Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices Margaret Wilson and Anna Yeatman (eds) Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 0 908912 60 9 Many of the essays in this book are written in what I have come to recognise as a post‑modernist manner.…
Tagged with: Anna Yeatman, Bill Oliver, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 18, Margaret Wilson, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Radical ‑ but what is its value? John Halligan
The State under Contract Jonathan Boston (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $39.95 ISBN 0 908912 71 4 Public sector reform has been traumatising many countries for more than a decade. Because of the disruptions and the challenges of comprehensive reform to…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 18, John Halligan, Jonathan Boston, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Or you could read fiction, Jane Stafford
A Working Mother’s Handbook. A New Zealand Guide for Expectant and New Mothers Francesca Holloway Longacre Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 958 3405 1 X Improving the Odds: The Remarriage Gamble ‑ a Woman’s Guide Averill Richardson HarperCollins, $24.95 ISBN 1869…
Tagged with: Averill Richardson, Francesca Holloway, HarperCollins, Issue 18, James Rutherford, Jane Stafford, Longacre Press, Maureen McDonough, Winter 1995
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Engines of culture, Lydia Wevers
Sport 12, 13, 14 Landfall 186, 187, 188 Takahe 18, 19, 20 Printout 8 Meanjin 4/1994, 1/1995 In the most recent issue of Meanjin there is a discussion of the funding of small magazines in which Fiona Capp, writing initially…
Keeping the specs clean, Janet Holmes
Posted in Comment, Language