Name: Power and Politeness in the Workplace von Janet Holmes
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Power and Politeness in the Workplace Janet Holmes

This book provides insights into the way we all talk at work. It contains a wealth of material illustrating the way people communicate with each other in their ordinary everyday encounters in the workplaces.

The analysis focusses on how and why people 'do' power and politeness in the workplace. It examines the strategies involved in balancing thedemands of the workplaceand maintaining good relationships with colleagues.

Drawing on a large and very varied corpus of data, the authors explore specific types of workplace talk, such as giving advice and instructions, solving problems, running meetings, making decisions and less obviously types of workpace talk such humour and small talk.

Über Janet Holmes

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 FRST-funded research project on Language in the Workplace. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994.

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 workplace discourse. Her publications include a textbook, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, a book on language and gender, Women, Men and Politeness, and the recently edited collection of papers Gendered Speech in Social Context.

Maria Stubbe is a Research Fellow with the Language in the Workplace Project, based in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her previous publications have focused on the analysis of spoken discourse in the areas of New Zealand English, language and gender and spoken communication in ethnically and linguistically diverse workplaces. She is currently also working on developing practical applications of the projects research findings for use by workplace practiitoners.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. POWER, POLITENESS AND THE WORKPLACE CONTEXT
Power, politeness and context
Power
Politeness
Context
The Wellington Language in the Workplace Project
Brief Outline of content of the book
Notes

2. FROM OFFICE TO PRODUCTION LINE: CONSTRUCTING ACORPUS OFWORKPLACE DATA
Designing a Method of Collecting Workplace Data
Collecting the Data
Conclusion
Notes

3. GETTING THINGS DONE AT WORK
Being Direct Downwards
Mitigation and Management Between Equals
Getting the Boss to Cooperate - requests and indirectives
Hints
Conclusion
Notes

4. WORKPLACE MEETINGS
Introduction
Types of Meetings
How are Meetings Structured?
Managing Interaction in Meetings
Doing Power and Politeness in Meetings: 2 case studies
Conclusion
Notes

5. SMALL TALKAND SOCIAL CHAT AT WORK
The Distribution of Social Talk in the Workplace
Social Functions of non-task orientated talk at Work
Conclusion
Notes

6. HUMOUR IN THE WORKPLACE
Functions of Humour in the Workplace
Humour and Workplace Culture
Conclusion
Notes

7. MISCOMMUNICATION AND PROBLEMATIC TALK AT WORK
Miscommunication
Negotiating with the Boss
Negotiating 'downwards'
Problems, Power and Partnership
Conclusion
Notes

8. CONCLUSION: SOME IMPLICATIONS ANDAPPLICATIONS
Introduction
Getting integrated at work
Reflection as a Learning Strategy for the Workplace
Conclusion
Notes

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR006406024

ISBN 13

9780582368774

ISBN 10

0582368774

Titel

Power and Politeness in the Workplace Janet Holmes

Autor

Janet Holmes

Serien

Real Language Series

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Datum

2003-02-21

Anzahl der Seiten

208

Preise

N/A

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