Hemi Whaanga
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hemi Whaanga is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 9. Words on Walls: A schoolscape study of Indigenous (Māori) loanwords used in New Zealand mainstream primary schools Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura and Eline Zenner (eds.), pp. 175–196 | Chapter
The language contact situation within Aotearoa New Zealand (A/NZ) has informed many studies on the increasingly salient feature of New Zealand English (NZE): the integration of loanwords from the Indigenous, donor language, Māori, into a dominant Lingua Franca (Hay et al., 2008). This study… read more
2024 Māori loanwords in New Zealand English: What can a picture-naming task reveal for language planning? Language Problems and Language Planning 48:1, pp. 48–74 | Article
The Indigenous language of ANZ, Māori is undergoing significant revitalisation, following severe loss of vitality caused by English colonialism. One dimension to this revitalisation is the normalising of borrowings from Māori into New Zealand English (NZE). However, there are currently no… read more
2019 Detecting language change: Māori loanwords in a diachronic topic-constrained corpus of New Zealand English newspapers Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:2, pp. 109–137 | Article
The borrowing of words from one language into another is most likely as ancient as language itself. While ample linguistic attention has focused on various linguistic contact scenarios in which words from one language enter productive use into another, their aim has been largely restricted to… read more