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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
