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.

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. She is now an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics. She currently leads the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project, 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”.

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