Janet Holmes
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- PhD Linguistics University of Auckland
- Masters Linguistics University of Auckland
- Bachelors English and Linguistics University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Janet Holmes is a New Zealand sociolinguist. Her research interests include language and gender, language in the workplace, and New Zealand English. Academic career After obtaining an MPhil at the University of Leeds, Holmes moved to Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, later becoming a naturalised New Zealander in 1975. She published a textbook Introduction to Sociolinguistics in 1992 which has run to five editions. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and won the Dame Joan Metge Medal in 2012. She is now an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Holmes has published widely on an array of topics. In 1996, she established the Wellington Language in the Workplace project, which is an ongoing study of communication formats occurring in the workplace, which examines “small talk, humour, management strategies, directives, and leadership in a wide range of New Zealand workplaces”.
Janet Holmes 's Published Works
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Published Works
- An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (1994) (3258)
- Women, Men and Politeness (1995) (1085)
- The handbook of language and gender (2003) (587)
- Politeness, Power and Provocation: How Humour Functions in the Workplace (2000) (491)
- Power and Politeness in the Workplace: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work (2003) (461)
- Paying compliments: A sex-preferential politeness strategy (1988) (457)
- The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research (1999) (448)
- MODIFYING ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE (1984) (359)
- Having a laugh at work: how humour contributes to workplace culture (2002) (352)
- Apologies in New Zealand English (1990) (293)
- Doubt and Certainty in ESL Textbooks (1988) (275)
- Sharing a laugh: Pragmatic aspects of humor and gender in the workplace (2006) (272)
- Functions of you know in women's and men's speech (1986) (267)
- Over the edge? Subversive humor between colleagues and friends (2002) (244)
- You know, eh and other ‘exasperating expressions’: An analysis of social and stylistic variation in the use of pragmatic devices in a sample of New Zealand English (1995) (187)
- Teachers and Students Learning About Compliments. (1987) (180)
- Sex Differences and Apologies: One Aspect of Communicative Competence1 (1989) (179)
- Relational practice in the workplace: Women's talk or gendered discourse? (2004) (176)
- Sociolinguistics : selected readings (1972) (174)
- Politeness, Humor and Gender in the Workplace: Negotiating Norms and Identifying Contestation (2005) (159)
- Expressing Doubt and Certainty in English (1982) (152)
- Women, Language and Identity (1997) (142)
- Expletives as solidarity signals in FTAs on the factory floor (2004) (141)
- Gendered talk at work : constructing gender identity through workplace discourse (2006) (140)
- Making Humour Work: Creativity on the Job (2007) (135)
- Women's Talk in Public Contexts (1992) (126)
- Multiple Discourse Analyses of a Workplace Interaction (2003) (119)
- Doing collegiality and keeping control at work: small talk in government departments (2014) (118)
- New Zealand women are good to talk to: An analysis of politeness strategies in interaction (1993) (116)
- Constructing professional identity: "Doing power" in policy units (1999) (101)
- Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity (2011) (100)
- 'Doing femininity' at work : more than just relational practice (2006) (99)
- Leadership talk: How do leaders ‘do mentoring’, and is gender relevant? (2005) (97)
- Exploring Co-leadership Talk Through Interactional Sociolinguistics (2008) (94)
- Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces: Māori and Pākehā leaders (2007) (93)
- Humor and leadership style (2006) (86)
- Leadership and managing conflict in meetings (2004) (80)
- Looking at girls in Corpora of English (2002) (79)
- Story-telling at work: a complex discursive resource for integrating personal, professional and social identities (2005) (76)
- The handbook of language, gender, and sexuality (2014) (74)
- “Feminine” Workplaces: Stereotype and Reality (2008) (70)
- Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interaction (2002) (69)
- An introduction to sociolinguistics, 3rd edition (2008) (67)
- Discourse and Identity: Workplace narratives, professional identity and relational practice (2006) (67)
- Impoliteness and ethnicity: Māori and Pākehā discourse in New Zealand workplaces (2008) (67)
- Maori and Pakeha English: Some New Zealand social dialect data (1997) (66)
- New Zealand Flappers: An Analysis of T Voicing in New Zealand English (1994) (63)
- Language Maintenance and Shift in Three New Zealand Speech Communities (1993) (63)
- Different Voices, Different Views: An Introduction to Current Research in Language and Gender (2008) (62)
- Humour and the Construction of Maori Leadership at Work (2007) (61)
- Leadership and communication: discursive evidence of a workplace culture change (2007) (60)
- Humour as an ethnic boundary marker in New Zealand interaction (1997) (59)
- Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant? (2005) (59)
- The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Ehrlich/The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality (2014) (59)
- Talking to the elderly in New Zealand residential care settings (2014) (57)
- Second Language Needs Analysis: When small talk is a big deal: Sociolinguistic challenges in the workplace (2005) (57)
- Politeness and impoliteness in ethnic varieties of New Zealand English (2012) (56)
- Setting New Standards: Sound Changes and Gender in New Zealand English = Formando nuevos estándares: Cambios de pronunciación y género en el inglés de Nueva Zelanda (1997) (52)
- 11. Talking Maori or Pakeha in English: signalling identity in discourse (2000) (50)
- Women's humour in the workplace: a quantitative analysis. (2001) (50)
- Workplace Discourse (2011) (49)
- Small Talk at Work: Potential Problems for Workers With an Intellectual Disability (2003) (45)
- Impoliteness as a means of contesting power relations in the workplace (2008) (45)
- Effective Leadership in New Zealand Workplaces: Balancing Gender and Role (2006) (45)
- PAYING COMPLIMENT: A SEX-PREFERENTIONAL POSITIVE POLITENESS STRATEGY (1988) (43)
- Of course: A pragmatic particle in New Zealand women's and men's speech∗ (1988) (42)
- Handling Small Talk at Work: Challenges for workers with intellectual disabilities (2000) (41)
- Social constructionism, postmodernism and feminist sociolinguistics (2007) (41)
- Building interaction: The role of talk in joining a community of practice (2013) (40)
- From classroom to workplace: tracking socio-pragmatic development (2011) (40)
- Workplace narratives and business reports: Issues of definition (2004) (40)
- Losing voice: is final /z/ devoicing a feature of Maori English? (1996) (39)
- What’s a word like girl doing in a place like this? Occupational labels, sexist usages and corpus research (2002) (36)
- Immigrant Women and Language Maintenance in Australia and New Zealand. (1993) (34)
- Narrative structure: Some contrasts between Maori and Pakeha story-telling (1998) (34)
- Narrative and the construction of professional identity in the workplace (2005) (32)
- Research methods in sociolinguistics : a practical guide (2014) (32)
- Contact is not enough: A response to Trudgill (2008) (31)
- 'Und tralala': vagueness and general extenders in German and New Zealand English (2007) (31)
- Talking English from 9 to 5: challenges for ESL learners at work (2000) (30)
- Developing Sociolinguistic Competence in a Second Language (1976) (30)
- Unpacking the research process: Investigating syllable‐timing in new Zealand English (1997) (30)
- Monitoring organisational boundaries: Diverse discourse strategies used in gatekeeping (2007) (30)
- Politeness and postmodernism – an appropriate approach to the analysis of language and gender? (2005) (28)
- Politeness Strategies as Linguistic Variables (2006) (28)
- Women managing discourse in the workplace (2003) (27)
- Using humor to do masculinity at work (2009) (27)
- Women at work: Analysing women’a talk in New Zealand workplaces (1999) (27)
- How do nurses describe health care procedures? Analysing nurse-patient interaction in a hospital ward (2008) (25)
- Good Listeners: Gender Differences in New Zealand Conversation (1997) (25)
- Keeping Tabs on Language Shift in New Zealand: Som e Methodological 1 Considerations (1997) (23)
- Femininity, feminism and gendered discourse (2010) (23)
- Leadership discourse in a Maori workplace: negotiating gender, ethnicity and leadership at work (2011) (23)
- Professional and personal identity at work: achieving a synthesis through intercultural workplace talk (2010) (21)
- Men, Masculinities and Leadership: Different Discourse Styles at Work (2009) (20)
- Talk at work: interactional challenges for immigrants (2009) (20)
- Struggling Beyond Labov and Waletzky (1997) (19)
- Negotiating the culture order in New Zealand workplaces (2018) (19)
- Is that right? Questions and questioning as control devices in the workplace (2010) (19)
- Negotiating the tall poppy syndrome in New Zealand workplaces: women leaders managing the challenge (2016) (18)
- Assisting the development of sociopragmatic skills: Negotiating refusals at work (2015) (18)
- The discourse of leadership (2003) (18)
- Inferring language change from computer corpora : Some methodological problems (1994) (16)
- Harnessing Storytelling as a Sociopragmatic Skill: Applying Narrative Research to Workplace English Courses. (2011) (15)
- Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication (2012) (15)
- Language and gender (1991) (14)
- Constructing ethnicity in New Zealand workplace stories (2008) (14)
- Eliciting refusals: A methodological challenge (2003) (14)
- Why Tell Stories? Contrasting Themes and Identities in the Narratives of Maori and Pakeha Women and Men (2008) (14)
- Ethnic differences in the dynamics of women's work meetings (2007) (13)
- English. A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand (2001) (13)
- Analysing New Zealand English in the Workplace (1999) (12)
- Hello–Goodbye: An analysis of children′s telephone conversations (1981) (12)
- Socio-pragmatic Aspects of Workplace Talk (2005) (12)
- Strategic code-switching in New Zealand workplaces: Scaffolding, solidarity and identity construction (2004) (12)
- Discourse in the Workplace (2015) (12)
- Boundary-marking humor: institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace (2009) (11)
- Negotiating sun use: Constructing consistency and managing inconsistency (1998) (11)
- Māori men at work: leadership, discourse, and ethnic identity (2009) (10)
- Leadership and Change Management: Examining Gender, Cultural and ‘Hero Leader’ Stereotypes (2017) (10)
- Applying linguistic research to real world problems: the social meaning of talk in workplace interaction (2011) (10)
- Heroes, fathers and good mates: Leadership styles of men at work (2008) (9)
- Humour, Power and Gender in the Workplace (2009) (9)
- Kia ora matua: Humour and the Maori language in the workplace (2010) (9)
- Gendered Discourse at Work (2008) (9)
- An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 4th Edition (2013) (9)
- Nurses communicating on the wards: the human face of hospitals. (2002) (9)
- Boundary-marking humor (2009) (8)
- Language and Gender in the Workplace (2014) (8)
- Discourse Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Juliane House, and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies (Advances in Discourse Processes, XXXI). Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1989. Pp. ix + 300. (1991) (8)
- How permeable is the formal-informal boundary at work? (2013) (8)
- Doing power and negotiating through disagreement in public meetings (2015) (7)
- Sociolinguistics vs pragmatics (2018) (7)
- Trivial, mundane or revealing? Food as a lens on ethnic norms in workplace talk (2014) (6)
- Contesting the Culture Order: Contrastive Pragmatics in Action (2020) (6)
- Gender and Pragmatics (2014) (6)
- From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson : exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality (2009) (5)
- Response to Koenraad Kuiper (1998) (5)
- Chapter 7. You’re a proper tradesman mate (2017) (5)
- Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace (2012) (5)
- Doing listenership: One aspect of sociopragmatic competence at work (2013) (5)
- Trading Places, Creating Spaces: Chris Candlin's contribution to aligning research and practice (2018) (5)
- Relativity rules: politic talk in ethnicized workplaces (2011) (5)
- Intercultural Communication in the Workplace (2017) (5)
- Review of: Power and Politeness in the Workplace (2018) (4)
- Workplace Research and Applications in Real World Contexts: The Case of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project (2021) (4)
- Enhancing socio-pragmatic skills among professional qualified workers (2008) (4)
- Telling stories: analysing Māori and Pākehā workplace narratives (2019) (4)
- Review of Ken (1998): Hedging in Scientific Research Articles (1998) (4)
- Gender and sociopragmatics (2017) (4)
- Humour in the Workplace ‐ Not Just Men's Play (2008) (3)
- The complexities of communication in professional workplaces (2014) (3)
- Transitions and Interactional Competence: Negotiating Boundaries Through Talk (2017) (3)
- Disagreeing in style: socio-cultural norms and workplace English (2009) (3)
- The Puzzle of Shareholder Fiduciary Duties (1991) (3)
- Im)politeness in the workplace (2017) (3)
- Discourse and Politeness: Ambivalent Face in Japanese by Naomi Geyer (2009) (2)
- Designing research to track socio-pragmatic skills among professionally qualified workers (2020) (2)
- Discourse in the Workplace Literature Review (2012) (2)
- Current trends in femininity, feminism and gendered discourse (2010) (2)
- From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson (2009) (2)
- Women of a certain Age - life styles, the female body and ageism (2010) (2)
- Strategic code-switching in New Zealand workplaces (2004) (2)
- Mary Crawford, Talking difference: On gender and language. London(UK) & Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage. 1995. Pp. xiii, 207. Hb $65.00, pb $19.95. (1997) (2)
- Managing in Style: Flexible Discourse at Work. (1999) (2)
- Ethnicity and humour in the workplace (2011) (2)
- Indirect Reports and Workplace Norms (2016) (2)
- Researching the impact of ‘the culture order’ in professional workplace contexts (2019) (2)
- Making Transitions: The Role of Interaction in Joining a Workplace Community of Practice. (2015) (2)
- Speaking up: understanding language and gender (2019) (2)
- Male Eldercare Workers in New Zealand (2020) (1)
- Marianne Hundt, New Zealand English Grammar: Fact or Fiction? A Corpus-Based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation (1999) (1)
- Relational Talk at Work (2011) (1)
- Explicit or implicit? Facilitating interactional competence through mentoring discourse at work (2019) (1)
- Sociolinguistics in New Zealand society (2013) (1)
- Sociolinguistics and the Individual. (1969) (1)
- Sabine Jautz: Thanking Formulae in English: Explorations across Varieties of English (2015) (1)
- Gender, leadership and discourse in New Zealand workplaces (2010) (1)
- Bent Preisler, Linguistic sex roles in conversation: Social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. Pp. xviii + 347. (1989) (1)
- Managing transitions through discourse at work (2018) (1)
- Preparing Pākehā for working with people from other cultures (2009) (1)
- An Introduction to sociolinguistics / Janet Holmes (1992) (1)
- Leadership and intercultural competence at work (2010) (1)
- Laughing on the Inside: Humour and Internal Politics in the Workplace (2012) (1)
- Obituary for John Pride (1995) (0)
- Approaching the Analysis of Leadership and Ethnicity (2011) (0)
- Doing leadership in intercultural workplace contexts (2011) (0)
- Providing audible feedback in (workplace) interaction - are there ethnic differences? (2009) (0)
- Linguistics Society of New Zealand Language & Society Conference 14-16 November 2018 (2018) (0)
- Proceedings of the 5th biennial international gender and language association conference (IGALA 5) (2009) (0)
- Taking research on workplace communication into the real world (2011) (0)
- Researching workplace interaction: methodology and analysis (2010) (0)
- Learning how to be a good colleague in Australasia: acquiring sociopragmatic skills for work (2011) (0)
- Impact of Texas Counselors' Network on students: A preliminary study. (2004) (0)
- The Role of Gender in Workplace Talk (2008) (0)
- Contest, Challenge and Complaint ‐ Gendered Discourse? (2008) (0)
- "Well shout at them a bit eh": leadership discourse in culture and context (2009) (0)
- “Climbing the Same Mountain” (2022) (0)
- Economic Choices and Popular Toys in the Nineteenth Century (1985) (0)
- Small Talk and Social Chat at Work (2015) (0)
- Sorry! Apologies and negative politeness strategies (2013) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW BOOK REVIEW of ECKERT, PENELOPE 2018. MEANING AND LINGUISTIC VARIATION: THE THIRD WAVE IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (2019) (0)
- Analysing workplace discourse: some alternative approaches (2009) (0)
- Sociolinguistics : Language choice , Diglossia , Polyglossia , Language maintenance and shift , Linguistic varieties , Regional , Social dialects , Gender and age , and Language change (2020) (0)
- Using workplace performance to track the development of L2 socio-pragmatic competence: requests and small talk (2009) (0)
- Readings of extrapolated contexts: A response to Michael Lloyd (1999) (0)
- Book review: Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (ed.), The Handbook of Business Discourse. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. xix + 500 pp. GB£95.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 7486 2801 8 (2010) (0)
- The Wellington language in the workplace project: models and methodology (2009) (0)
- Victoria Bridge: The Vital Link by Stanley Triggs, et al, and: The McCord Family: A Passionate Vision by Pamela Miller, et al. (review) (2016) (0)
- Politeness and socio-cultural constraints on intercultural competence (2011) (0)
- When small talk is a big deal: developing socio-pragmatic competence for the workplace (2009) (0)
- Intercultural competence in the workplace (2011) (0)
- Hans Ladegaard, The discourse of powerlessness and repression: Life stories of domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xi, 230. Hb. £110. (2018) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: where next? (2010) (0)
- It takes two to tango: researching attitudes using discourse data (2011) (0)
- Miscommunication and Problematic Talk at Work (2015) (0)
- Women, men and leadership: constructing complex identities through talk at work (2008) (0)
- The position of women in the senior management of secondary schools (1984) (0)
- Kecskes, Istvan. 2014. Intercultural Pragmatics (2014) (0)
- Book review: Plester, Barbara (2016). The Complexity of Workplace Humour: Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour. London & New York: Springer, 164 pp. (2017) (0)
- Constructing leadership identity in intercultural workplace contexts (2011) (0)
- Axel Hübler, Understatements and hedges in English . (Pragmatics and Beyond IV, 6.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins B.V., 1983. Pp. ix + 192. (1986) (0)
- Humour in the Workplace (2015) (0)
- Gender and leadership identity in the workplace: discursive challenges for women and men (2009) (0)
- Constructing Leadership through Language (2011) (0)
- Leadership through talk: are there ethnic differences? (2008) (0)
- Power and professional identity in the workplace: models, methods and interpretations (2009) (0)
- Language in the workplace: how to analyze workplace discourse (2011) (0)
- Learning from Intercultural Research (2011) (0)
- Gender and leadership: some socio-pragmatic considerations (2008) (0)
- Social identity construction in New Zealand workplaces (2010) (0)
- Whose perspective counts? Sociopragmatics and identity construction at work (2009) (0)
- Sociolinguistics : Style , context and register , speech functions , politeness , Cross-cultural communication , culture and meaning Co mpiled (2020) (0)
- Doing leadership in style: Pragmatic markers in New Zealand workplace interaction (2023) (0)
- [Using humor to do masculinity at work, Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work] (2009) (0)
- MULTILINGUALISM, SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND GENDER. Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge, Ingrid Piller, and Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (Eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xi + 356. $79.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. (2004) (0)
- Māori Leadership at Work (2011) (0)
- Conformity and change in leadership identity construction (2011) (0)
- Making talk work and making work talk: developing teaching materials from workplace discourse (2008) (0)
- "I really know my stuff!" Constructing ethnic and professional identity through workplace talk (2008) (0)
- Book review: Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman (eds), Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren (2014) (0)
- Being an effective listener: strategies used by skilled migrants at work (2010) (0)
- Paul Kerswill, Dialects converging: Rural speech in urban Norway . (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. Pp. xiv, 181. Hb £25.00, $39.95. (1996) (0)
- Book Review: Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone and Paul Kerswill (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2012) (0)
- Workplace discourse: methods, analysis, applications (2011) (0)
- Relational talk at work: from the workplace to the classroom and back again (2008) (0)
- Sociolinguistics in New Zealand society: Using research to enhance working lives (2013) (0)
- Joining a new community of workplace practice: discursive evidence of the importance of attitudes (2011) (0)
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