Janet Holmes (linguist)
| Dr Janet Holmes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 |
| Residence | New Zealand |
| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Thesis | The language of spoken monologue : an analysis of topic and narrative structure / by Janet Holmes. (1970) |
Janet Holmes ONZM (born 1947) is a New Zealand sociolinguist.
Academic career
After obtaining a PhD at the University of Leeds, Holmes moved to the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She published a textbook Introduction to Sociolinguistics which has run to four editions. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and won the Dame Joan Metge Medal in 2012.[1] She is now an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics.[2] She currently leads the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project,[3] 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”.
Publications
- 2014 Holmes, Janet and Kirk Hazen (eds.) Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide. Oxford/Malden MA: Wiley Blackwell.
- 2014 Ehrlich, Susan, Miriam Meyerhoff and Janet Holmes (eds.) The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality. Oxford/Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
- 2013 Holmes, Janet. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Fourth Edition. London: Pearson.
- 2011 Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity. Oxford University Press.
- 2011 Laurie Bauer, Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes and Paul Warren Q and Eh: Questions and Answer on Language with a Kiwi Twist.
- 2006 Holmes, Janet Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity through Workplace Discourse. New York, Oxford: Blackwell.
- 2006 Laurie Bauer, Janet Holmes and Paul Warren. Language Matters. Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2003 Holmes, Janet and Maria Stubbe. Power and Politeness in the Workplace: a Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work. London: Pearson.
- 2002. Holmes, J. and M. Marra. "Having a laugh at work: How humour contributes to workplace culture," Journal of pragmatics,34(12): 1683–1710
- 2000 Editor. Gendered Speech in Social Context: Perspectives from Gown and Town. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
- 1999. Holmes, Janet. Women, Men and Politeness. Oxon: Addison, Wesley, Longman.
- 1988. Holmes, Janet. "Paying compliments: A sex-preferential politeness strategy," Journal of Pragmatics. 12(4): 445–465.
- 1984. Holmes, Janet. "Modifying illocutionary force," Journal of Pragmatics. 8(3): 345–365.
References
- ↑ "Medals awarded to top New Zealand researchers « Media Releases « News « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ↑ "Janet Holmes - School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies - Victoria University of Wellington". Victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ↑ "School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies". Language in the Workplace. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
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