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Attitudes, varieties, discourse - an introduction to thesociolinguistics of New Zealand English; "this objectionable colonialdialect" - historical and contemporary attitudes to New Zealand speech;sociolinguistic stereotyping in New Zealand; "God help us if we allsound like this" attitudes to New Zealand and other English accents;pidgin English and pidgin Maori in New Zealand; the rise of New Zealandintonation; a longitudinal study of the "ear/air" contract in NewZealand; Minder, Mork and Mindy - glottalisation and postvocalic inyounger New Zealand English speakers; audience and referee design inNew Zealand media language; "they're off and racing now" - the speechof the New Zealand race caller; the sociolinguistics of questioning indistrict court trials; politeness strategies in New Zealand women'sspeech; politeness revisited - the dark side.