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Janet Holmes (1) (1947–)

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Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches sociolinguistics courses from first year to postgraduate level. Her books include Gendered Talk at Work and the Blackwell Handbook of Language and Gender (co-edited with Miriam Meyerhoff). Most recently she mehr anzeigen has published Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity (co-authored with Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine) reflecting her most recent research interests which focus on leadership discourse and the relevance of gender and ethnicity in the workplace. weniger anzeigen

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (1992) — Autor — 151 Exemplare
Sociolinguistics: Selected Readings (1972) — Herausgeber — 48 Exemplare
The Handbook of Language and Gender (2003) — Herausgeber — 25 Exemplare

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Language Myths (1998) — Mitwirkender — 556 Exemplare

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Holmes, Janet
Geburtstag
1947-05-17
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
New Zealand
Berufe
Professor of Linguistics
Organisationen
Victoria University of Wellington

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What the hell happened to my review? I has a sad. Anyway, this challenges the reductive view of social class linguists all seem to unproblematically swallow (and, implicitly, the simplistic view of language variation held by many non-linguists) by investigating the way sex/gender and class-based approaches to variation are intrinsically incomplete and exclusionary, and then proposes as an alternative to class, a notion of "network" - who do you spend time with? In what relationship? How frequently? How many other people? - that updates the sociological language of class based on money and ill-conceived notions of prestige, and makes class/network a functioning 21st-century concept in ways that go far beyond linguistics. And that's just the Romaine article, which,

NB, I USED FOR READING GROUP. DID NOT READ THE WHOLE BOOK.
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