User:Janet holmes

Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics and Acting Head of the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand since 1994. She is internationally recognised for her expertise in sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics, and language and gender research. She has directed a number of successful research projects including the Wellington Social Dialect Survey (with Professor Allan Bell), the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Project, and the Language in the Workplace Project. She has extensive experience with both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Professor Holmes has taught courses and 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 a wide range of socio-pragmatic aspects of workplace discourse. She has supervised eleven completed PhD theses and seventeen MA theses. Her doctoral students hold academic posts in universities in the UK, Asia and New Zealand, as well as senior positions in government departments. She has published extensively, including fifteen books and more than two hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters. She is a member of the Editorial Board of ten international journals. Her research has been supported by grants totalling more than $NZ 2.5million from the Social Science Research Fund, the Foundation for Research Science and Technology (for eleven consecutive years), and most recently by the Marsden Fund ($.5 million). She has reviewed grant proposals for funders in the USA, UK, Australia and NZ, and she has acted as an expert advisor to a number of universities internationally. She has an M Phil and BA (1st class Hons) in Linguistics from the University of Leeds. webpage: www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/lwp