Professor Janet Holmes

Janet Holmes is an Honorary Professor of Warwick Applied Linguistics. She is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. This is an ongoing study of communication in the workplace which has described small talk, humour, management strategies, directives, and leadership in a wide range of New Zealand workplaces.

 

Research Supervision

Please note that although academic colleagues associated with the Centre make an important contribution to its research activities, they do not supervise research students.