Sharing a laugh: Pragmatic aspects of humor and gender in the workplace
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Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches a variety of sociolinguistics courses. She is Director of the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English and of a funded research project on Language in the Workplace. She has published on a wide range of topics including New Zealand English, language and gender, sexist language, pragmatic particles, compliments and apologies, and most recently on the pragmatics of workplace
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2022, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :On the other hand, instances of explicit self-praise without modification were more frequently found in men's conversations. This concurs with findings in the field of gender and language whereby men tend to be more direct and competitive while women are generally more indirect and collaborative (Coates, 1996, 2003, 2004; Holmes, 2006; Pilkington, 1998; Tannen, 1993). Pilkington (1998) investigated gender differences in interactional styles in single-sex talk.
Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches a variety of sociolinguistics courses. She is Director of the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English and of a funded research project on Language in the Workplace. She has published on a wide range of topics including New Zealand English, language and gender, sexist language, pragmatic particles, compliments and apologies, and most recently on the pragmatics of workplace discourse. Her publications include a textbook, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, a book on language and gender, Women, Men and Politeness, and an edited collection of papers, Gendered Speech in Social Context. With Miriam Meyerhoff, she is co-editor of the Blackwell Handbook on Language and Gender (2003). Another book is Power and Politeness in the Workplace, written with Maria Stubbe (2004).