Janet Holmes

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. Written accessibly by one of the field’s foremost researchers, this book explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction. It uses original and insightfully analysed data to focus on the...

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it can be used to signal and interpret various aspects of social identity. Divided into three parts, this book explains basic...