This is still cordoned off and there was a fire since the quakes
The University of Canterbury is known internationally for the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus (see Gordon et al 2004). ONZE is a large collection of recordings from people born between 1851 and 1984, and it has been widely utilised for linguistic and sociolinguistic research on New Zealand English. The ONZE data is varied. The recordings from the Mobile Unit (MU) are interviews and were collected by members of the NZ Broadcasting service shortly after the Second World War, with the aim of recording stories from New Zealanders outside the main city centres. These were supplemented by interview recordings carried out mainly in the 1990s and now contained in the Intermediate Archive (IA). The final ONZE collection, the Canterbury Corpus, is a set of interviews and word-list recordings carried out by students at the University of Canterbury. Across the ONZE corpora, there are different interviewers, different interview styles and a myriad of different topics discussed. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus – the QuakeBox – where these contexts are much more consistent and comparable across speakers. The QuakeBox is a corpus which consists largely of audio and video recordings of monologues about the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. As such, it represents Canterbury speakers’ very recent ‘danger of death’ experiences (see Labov 2013). In this paper, we outline the creation and structure of the corpus, including the practical issues involved in storing the data and gaining speakers’ informed consent for their audio and video data to be included.
Transcript of R Falcome-Price's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Bev McCashin's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of George LJ Williams's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of James David Bundy's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Leonora (Lee) Bothma's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of John Le Riche's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Kerry O'Neill's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Colin MacKenzie's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of A C Coleshill's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of E J Goslin's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Denise McCulloch's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Debbie-Lee Osborne's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Kim McDiarmid's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of R C Norman's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Anna McConachy's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Mari-Ann Williams's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Sarah McRae's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Diane L Hyde's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A transcript of Bruce Morriss's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 9 November 2012. Morriss is the South Island Regional Manager for Tearfund NZ.
A photograph of a bell from the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral on display at QuakeCity.
Transcript of Rodger C G Curragh's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Flora (Flo) McGregor's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Gwendolen (Wendy) Mary Smith's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Fiona Farrell has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship to research and write twin books, one fiction and one non-fiction, inspired by her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes and the rebuilding of the city.
With Andrew Cleland - Chief Executive of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ. Dr Maan Alkaisi - Co-chair Christchurch Earthquake Families Group. Maurice Williamson - Minister for Building and Construction.
A presentation by Dr David Conradson at UC CEISMIC's Contestable Fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Stories of Movement: experiences of disruption and adjustment in a post-quake city".
A transcript of Ps John Alpe's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 5 December 2012. John Alpe is the Senior Pastor of St Albans Baptist Church.
Transcript of participant number AP2500's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.