A presentation by Dr Zita Joyce at UC CEISMIC's Contestable Fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Radio Quake: broadcasting in post-quake Christchurch".
Slides from a presentation by Dr Zita Joyce at UC CEISMIC's Contestable Fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Radio Quake: broadcasting in post-quake Christchurch".
A story submitted by James to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Jeremy Ellen to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Maria to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Donna to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Tayla Hodge to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Matthew to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Nicki Reece to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Lynne Ball to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Celina Elliott to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Jocelyn to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Frederic to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Jane McCulla to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Simon to the QuakeStories website.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Quake City posters, Garlands Road".
A photograph of the temporary QuakeCity museum at Re:START mall.
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.
A photograph of a bell from the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral on display at QuakeCity.
Caleb and Zeph Middendorf enjoying lunch from the food stalls in the Re:Start mall. The Quake City exhibition is visible in the background.
The partially-demolished BNZ building.
A photograph of the Rendezvous Hotel.
A photograph of the Rendezvous Hotel.
A damaged building on Hereford Street.
The Pavilion building on Cashel Street.
A photograph of the Rendezvous Hotel.