New Zealand English on the YouTube Vlog “Jamie’s World”

master's thesis

• Author: Viktoria Družijanić
• Mentor: Višnja Josipović-Smojver (mentor)
• Committee member: Anđel Starčević (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Marina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2020-09-25, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics

Abstract

New Zealand English is one of the youngest English varieties within the history of more than 200 years. Different factors have affected the English language on this island and contributed to creating a distinct variety. This paper aims to provide an outlay of the most prominent linguistic features of New Zealand English through the analysis of the contemporary vlog entitled “Jamie’s World”. A corpus of eight videos is used. The first part of the study presents the historical background of the island, New Zealand English origins, and its development. After the theoretical part, the empirical analysis of NZE follows. It consists of the comparison between Jamie’s way of using certain linguistic patterns and the traditional linguistic features of this variety.

• Keywords: New Zealand English; Kiwi; linguistic features
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:575420
• Study programme: Title: English Language and Literature (single major); specializations in: TEFL, Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation; Course: Linguistics; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-09-28 09:19:44