
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Morganwood Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Residential properties on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
An aerial photograph of South Brighton, Sumner and Clifton Hill.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Grafiti art on a shipping container in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Residential properties on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph of street art in Brighton Mall. The artwork depicts a beach scene.
A photograph of a woman standing beside a cordon fence on Colombo Street in Sydenham.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Kilmore Street Madras Street corner, ex Piko".
A photograph of street art on a building in Brighton Mall.
A photograph of street art in Brighton Mall. The artwork depicts a beach scene.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
Looking north from Worcester Street towards the recently-occupied Press building on Gloucester Street. In the background is the PricewaterhouseCoopers building.
A photograph of a postal worker delivering mail on a street with damaged houses. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Redcliffs and Sumner".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Residential properties on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Residential properties on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Residential properties on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view down a driveway of houses on crazy angles. Liquefaction has been a problem here and slumping occurred under all these houses. The houses have been affected in different ways".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An aerial view of east Christchurch".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "179-181 Victoria Street, Carlton Butchery".
A photograph of street art in Brighton Mall. The artwork depicts a beach scene.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Velsheda Street in Bexley".
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.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Prebbleton.
A photograph of a section of a piece of street art on the side of a building between Brighton Mall and Hawke Street. This section of the artwork depicts images and messages in bubbles.
A photograph of a sign on a lamp post on Bealey Avenue. The sign reads, "Attention Public, there is a cordon in effect. From the timings of 0600 to 1800 only personal with legitimate reasons and home owners are permitted to enter the cordon. Home owners, please have proof of address and identification ready for inspection. At 1800 to 0600 the cordoned area is under curfew. The only personnel permitted to enter are: health professionals, Canterbury Council staff, contractors, media. No exceptions. If you have any questions, please approach police or NZDF personnel. Thank you for your co-operation".
An abandoned residential property at 28 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The front of the section is covered with weeds and silt from liquefaction. Three broken chairs lie outside the front of the house. The front door is open. 'HM' has been spray-painted in green onto the front wall.