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Direct linkHolmes, Janet; Marra, Meredith – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
Narratives are often overlooked in workplace talk, but they contribute in crucial ways to relationship building and identity construction in workplace interaction. In this article we analyse narratives told by skilled migrants from non-English-speaking backgrounds during a workplace internship conducted as part of a Workplace Communication course.…
Descriptors: Migrants, Story Telling, Personal Narratives, Workshops
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet – Language in Society, 1990
Examines the syntactic, semantic, and sociolinguistic features of a corpus of 183 apologies in New Zealand English, within the context of an interaction model with 2 intersecting dimensions, affective and referential meaning, attempting to relate the relative "weightiness" of the offense to features of the apology. (53 references)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet; Ainsworth, Helen – Language Awareness, 1997
Presents insights into how language research develops, with particular focus on the extent to which syllable-timing is a characteristic of the New Zealand English speech of certain ethnic and social groups. The discussion examines the development of hypotheses, methodological challenges and the importance of considering alternative interpretations…
Descriptors: English, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Language Research
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Discusses how apologies are illuminating sources of information on the sociocultural values of a speech community, including differences between male and female values. These sex differences are examined in the distribution of apologies in order to shed light on the complexities encountered by language learners in acquiring communicative…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Language Styles
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Among both first- and second-generation immigrant groups in New Zealand and Australia, women maintain the ethnic language (EL) longer than men. Compared with men's networks, women's networks encourage more extensive use of EL in social interactions, and women value the social and affective functions expressed by EL. (Contains 71 references.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Download full textHolmes, Janet – 1999
A study investigated the variety of ways in which managers use language in sociolinguistically sensitive ways to get things done at work. Drawing on a database of over 300 interactions in a range of New Zealand workplaces, aspects of power (how things are accomplished), politeness (the importance of small talk), and solidarity (the difference…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBauer, Laurie; Holmes, Janet – World Englishes, 1996
Examines the constraints on the realization of "/t/" in New Zealander English. On the basis of an examination of the speech of two similar speakers from that country, a series of allophonic rules is provided. The article shows that the distribution of allophones for these speakers is not the same as for other speakers who have been…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics
