Contents

Preface Martin Paviour-Smith, Massey University, NZ Preface.pdf	i
Part One – Language and language users
Introduction to Part One, Paul Kerswill, Lancaster University, UK ebookintroPt1.pdf	1
The Power and peril of pathos: An analysis of rhetoric in the new Zealand Race Relations Commissioner’s speech to mark the United Nations day of Cultural Heritage	4
Su Olsson and Marianne Tremaine, Massey University Olsson Tremaine.pdf
Language and identity in the Māori community: Without the reo, who am I?	29
Arapeha Ngaha, Auckland University Ngaha.pdf
Woman presidents? Sociolinguistics and the Iranian constitution	49
Reza Ghafar Samar, Tarbiat Modares University Samar.pdf
“We don’t know what we’re saying, but it’s profound”: The language and contexts of glossolalia	64
Heather Kavan, Massey University Kavan.pdf
Part Two – Language in research
Introduction to Part Two	82
Martin Paviour-Smith, Massey University
introduction part 2.pdf
Language and refugees: Beyond mere cultural miscommunication	85
Pauline Guerin, University of Waikato P Guerin.pdf
River, canoe: a metaphor to inform community-based research into adult literacy	99
Frank Sligo, Massey University Sligo.pdf
Sampling community discourses as a method for assessing “public opinion”	117
Bernard Guerin, University of Waikato Guerin opionion.pdf
Two ‘linguistic devices’ that require social context: Integrating social and linguistic analyses	129
Bernard Guerin, University of Waikato Guerin devices.pdf