Resources

Project-related presentations

• 26th conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE26), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 25–27 July 2025;

• • Title of presentation: Conceptual metaphors in New Zealand Englishes: A comparison of Māori and Pākehā speakers (joint presentation with A. Onysko)

• Figurative Thought and Language 8 (FTL8), University of Klagenfurt, 9-11 July 2025;

• • Title of presentation: “Challenges of annotating metaphors in the New Zealand Stories Corpus” (joint presentation with Egon Stemle, Nicole Imrich, Maja Gajic and Alexander Onysko).

• 5th International Symposium on Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World

• • (MetViEW5), University of Bremen (Germany), 25-26 February, 2025; Title of presentation: “The contribution of conceptual metaphors to cultural conceptualizations in Aotearoa English” (joint presentation with A. Onysko)

• LEXESP – GPLSI 2024, University of Alicante (Spain), 9-10 May 2024;

• • Title of presentation: “The New Zealand Stories Corpus: overview and close-up on parsing and semi-manual annotation” (joint presentation with E. Stemle and A. Onysko)

Project-related guest lectures 

• Lecture on “Metaphors in Aotearoa English: Examples from the New Zealand Stories Corpus”, University of Bremen (Germany), 2 July 2024. (with A. Onysko)
• Lecture on “The New Zealand Stories Corpus: Background and first results”, Waikato University, Hamilton (New Zealand), 14 February 2024. (with A. Onysko)
• Lecture on “The New Zealand Stories Corpus: Background and first results”, Canterbury University, Christchurch (New Zealand), 26 February 2024. (with A. Onysko)

Project-related publications

• Degani, M. (2025). Māori English, cultural conceptualizations in. In K. Bolton (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hokoben, NJ: Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00188.
• Onysko, A and M. Degani (2024). General extenders in New Zealand Englishes. World Englishes. Special issue. 44 (1-2): 237-252. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.12698
• Degani, M. and A. Onysko (2024). Cultural variation in New Zealand English stories about place. World Englishes. Special issue. 43(3): 399-413. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.12659