ABSTRACT New Zealand English is well-known for its heavy borrowing of words from Māori. This lexical component, unique to New Zealand English alone has been studied intensely over the last 50 years, particularly in newspaper media. Current research suggests the use is still increasing today, primarily in Māori-related contexts. Here, we analyse a surprising and unexpected use of Māori loanwords in science digital discourse (neither genre being previously investigated), where we discover a strong presence of Māori borrowings in National Science Challenge website and Twitter content. Using corpus linguistics methods, we argue that the use of Māori loanwords in this genre functions as a national identity building tool, used by various authors to signal that the ‘challenges’ the country faces are uniquely New Zealand’s ‘challenges’.

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毛利语词汇在国家科学挑战赛在线演讲中的使用

摘要 新西兰英语以大量借用毛利语而闻名。在过去的 50 年里，特别是在报纸媒体中，对这种仅新西兰英语独有的词汇成分进行了深入研究。目前的研究表明，这种使用今天仍在增加，主要是在与毛利人相关的环境中。在这里，我们分析了科学数字话语中毛利语借词的惊人和意外使用（之前没有研究过这两种类型），我们发现在国家科学挑战赛网站和 Twitter 内容中大量存在毛利语借词。使用语料库语言学方法，我们认为在这一流派中使用毛利语借词作为一种国家认同建设工具，被各种作者用来表明该国面临的“挑战”是新西兰独有的“挑战”。