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Recent Publications

2009

Holmes, Janet 2009. Men, masculinities and leadership: Different discourse styles at work. In Pia Pichler and Eva Eppler (eds) Gender and Spoken Interaction. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 186-210.

Holmes, Janet 2009. Humour, power and gender in the workplace.  In Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski The New Sociolinguistics Reader. London: Macmillan. 631-645.

Holmes, Janet  2009. Disagreeing in style: Socio-cultural norms and workplace English. In Christopher Ward (ed.) Language Teaching in a Multilingual World: Challenges and Opportunities.  Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre Anthology Series 50. 85-102.

Holmes. Janet 2009. Is sex relevant in the ESL classroom? In Rakesh Bhanot and Eva Illes (eds) Best of Language Issues. London: London South Bank University Press. 272-278.

Holmes, Janet, Angela Joe, Meredith Marra, Jonathan Newton, Nicky Riddiford and Bernadette Vine Designing research to track socio-pragmatic skills among professionally qualified workers. New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 15,1: 38-46.

Holmes, Janet and Nicky Riddiford 2009. Talk at Work: Interactional Challenges for Immigrants. In Vijay K Bhatia, Winnie Cheng, Bertha Du-Babcock, Jane Lung (eds), Language for Professional Communication: Research, Practice & Training. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 217-234.

Holmes, Janet, Bernadette Vine and Meredith Marra 2009. Māori men at work: leadership, discourse and ethnic identity. Intercultural Pragmatics 6-3 (2009), 345-366.

Schnurr, Stephanie and Janet Holmes 2009. Using humour to do masculinity at work. In Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro (eds). Humor in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 101-123.

Vine, Bernadette 2009. Directives at work: exploring the contextual complexity of workplace directives, Journal of Pragmatics 41(7): 1395-1405.

Vine, Bernadette, Susan Kell, Meredith Marra and Janet Holmes 2009. Boundary-marking humour: Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace. In Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro (eds.), Humor in Interaction. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 125-139.

2008

Holmes, Janet 2008.Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 3rd Edition. London: Longman. Pp. 406

Holmes, Janet 2008. Gendered discourse at work. Language and Linguistics Compass 2 (3): 478–495.

Major, George and Janet Holmes 2008. How do nurses describe health care procedures? Analysing nurse-patient interaction in a hospital ward. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 25, 4: 58-70.

Marra, Meredith, Bernadette Vine and Janet Holmes 2008. Heroes, fathers and good mates: leadership styles of men at work. Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2008, Wellington, 9-11 July 2008. http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/. 1-15.

Marra, Meredith 2008. Recording and analyzing talk across cultures. In Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed.) Culturally Speaking: Culture, Communication and Politeness (2nd ed). Continuum. 304-321.

Marra, Meredith and Janet Holmes 2008. Constructing ethnicity in New Zealand workplace stories. Text & Talk 28, 3: 397-420.

Holmes, Janet,  Meredith Marra and Stephanie Schnurr  2008. Impoliteness and ethnicity:  Māori and Pākehā discourse in New Zealand workplaces. Journal of Politeness Research 4,2: 193-219.

Vine, Bernadette, Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, Dale Pfeifer and Brad Jackson 2008. Exploring co-leadership talk through Interactional Sociolinguistics. Leadership 4, 3: 339-360.

Holmes, Janet 2008. Gender and leadership: Some socio-pragmatic considerations. The Journal and Proceedings of GALE 2008 1,1: 4-16.

Marra, Meredith 2008. Meeting talk: Aligning the classroom with the workplace. Communication Journal of New Zealand 9,1: 63-82.

Recent Presentations

2009

Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine 2009. Preparing Pākehā for working with people from other cultures. In Stephen May (ed.), Proceedings of the Language Education and Diversity Conference, Waikato University, 21-23 November 2007.


2008

Marra, Meredith. Beyond the monocultural workplace: Researching across cultures. Invited plenary at Intercultural dialogue: the way forward. At-Bristol, Bristol, 11-12 April. Simultaneously broadcast on radio and online by Bristol community 93.2fm.

Vine, Bernadette and Meredith Marra. EH and Maori men: A vernacular feature at work. IGALA5 (International Gender and Language Association Conference), Victoria University of Wellington, 3-5 July 2008.

Marra, Meredith, Bernadette Vine and Janet Holmes. Heroes, fathers and good mates: Leadership styles of men at work. ANZCA08 (Australia New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Massey University at Wellington, 9-11 July 2008.

Holmes J, 'Disagreeing in style: socio-cultural norms and workplace English', 43rd RELC International Seminar (Singapore, April 2008).

Holmes J, 'Enhancing socio-pragmatic skills among professionally qualified workers', American Association for Applied Linguistics (Washington DC, March 2008).

Holmes J, 'Using authentic materials in teaching English as an international language', 43rd RELC International Seminar (Singapore, April 2008).

Holmes J, 'Women, men and leadership: constructing complex identities through talk at work ; Women, men and leadership: constructing complex identities through talk at work', Scandinavian Conference on Language and Gender ; Talk at University of Wales (Copenhagen; Bangor, October 2008).

Holmes J, Marra M, Vine B, 'Leadership through talk: are there ethnic differences?', 11th New Zealand Language and Society Conference (Dunedin, November 2008).

Holmes J, Riddiford N, "I really know my stuff!" Constructing ethnic and professional identity through workplace talk', 11th New Zealand Language and Society Conference (Dunedin, November 2008).

Holmes J, 'Professional identity and ethnicity in New Zealand workplaces', Invited Seminar given at University of Wales, Bangor (2008).

Marra, Meredith. Skilled migrants in the workplace: Is the issue really that “they can’t speak English?” Invited seminar in the Centre for Intercultural Communication series, UWE Bristol, 9 April 2008.