Liz Kivi standing outside the UC QuakeBox at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Liz Kivi, Geoff Clements and Derek Bent setting up the television outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show. The television played videos of previous stories recorded in the UC QuakeBox.
Chelsea Smith standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in the car park of Westfield Riccarton.
The UC QuakeBox container next to the New Brighton Library.
Geoff Clements and Sally Roome outside the UC QuakeBox at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Liv Kivi sitting outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Chelsea Smith standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in the car park of Westfield Riccarton.
Chelsea Smith standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in the car park of Westfield Riccarton.
Liv Kivi and Geoff Clements in the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Sally Roome and Troy Gillan at the UC QuakeBox in the carpark of Westfield Riccarton.
Derek Bent, Troy Gillan and Lucy-Jane Walsh outside the UC QuakeBox at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Sally Roome and Troy Gillan at the UC QuakeBox in the carpark of Westfield Riccarton.
Anne Williams and Sally Roome standing outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show.
The winners parade at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Liv Kivi recording a story inside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.
A sign on a lamppost in Brooklands, reading, "The government is stealing our land".
The Brooklands Community Hall with the UC QuakeBox parked in the car park. A sign with the opening time has been placed on the other side of the road.
Liz Kivi stting beside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.
Derek Bent and Geoff Clements standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.
Liv Kivi sitting outside the UC QuakeBox container in New Brighton. The container was parked south of the New Brighton Library.
A sign in a shop on the corner of Anfield Street and Lower Styx Road in Brooklands. The sign reads, "Save Brooklands. We want to stay!".
Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean.
Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean. To the left, shipping containers line the street. One has been placed on the footpath next to where the UC QuakeBox is sitting and covered with a patchwork quilt.
The winners parade at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Derek Bent and Geoff Clements standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.
Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean.
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 Chris's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Video of Jo's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Video of Kirsty's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.