Ethnic differences in the dynamics of women's work meetings

Multilingua

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-331

  Kell, Susan ^a   Marra, Meredith ^a   Holmes, Janet ^a   Vine, Bernadette ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249160217     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MULTI.2007.016     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca and Sandra Harris (1997). Managing Language: The Discourse of Corporate Meetings. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2. Barlow, Cleve (1994). Tikanga Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Mäori Culture. Auckland: Oxford University Press.
3. Benton, Richard (1991). 'Maori English': A New Zealand myth? In Cheshire, Jenny (ed.), English around the World Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 187-199.
4. Bilbow, Grahame T. (1998). Look who's talking: An analysis of 'chair-talk' in business meetings. Journal Business and Technical Communication 12, 157-197.
5. Bilmes, Jack (1994). Constituting silence: Life in the world of total meaning. Semiotica 98, 73-87.
6. Boden, Deirdre (1994). The Business of Talk: Organizations in Action. Cambridge: Polity Press.
7. Chan, Angela Chi Keun (2005). Openings and closings in business meetings in different cultures. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
8. Coates, Jennifer (1996). Women Talk: Conversations Between Women Friends. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
9. Coates, Jennifer (ed.) (1998). Language and Gender: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
10. Crawford, Mary (1995). Talking Difference: On Gender and Language. London: Sage.
11. Davis, Kathy (1988). Power Under the Microscope. Dordrecht: Floris Holland.
12. Duranti, Alessandro (1997). Universal and culture-specific properties of greetings. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 7, 63-97.
13. Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet (2003). Language and Gender. New York: Cambridge University Press.
14. Fairclough, Norman (1989). Language and Power. London: Longman.
15. Fairclough, Norman and Anna Mauranen (1998). The conversationalisation of political discourse: A comparative view. In Blommaert, Jan and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), Political Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 89-121.
16. French, John R. P. Jr. and Bertram Raven (1959). The bases of social power. In Cart-wright, Dorwin and A. Zander (eds.), Group Dynamics. New York: Harper and Row, 150-167.
17. Hanak, Irmi (1998). Chairing meetings: turn and topic control in developmental communication in rural Zanzibar. Discourse and Society 9, 33-56.
18. Holmes, Janet (2000). Women at work: Analysing women's talk in New Zealand workplaces. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22(2), 1 - 17.
19. - (2006). Gendered Talk at Work. Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse. Maiden, MA: Blackwell
20. Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra (2002). Having a laugh at work: How humour contributes to workplace culture. Journal of Pragmatics 34, 1683-1710.
21. - (2004). Relational practice in the workplace: Women's talk or gendered discourse? Language in Society 33, 377-398.
22. Holmes, Janet and Maria Stubbe (2003a). 'Feminine' workplaces: Stereotype and reality. In Holmes, Janet and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), The Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell, 573-599.
23. - (2003b). Power and Politeness in the Workplace. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work. London: Pearson Education.
24. Holmes, Janet, Maria Stubbe and Meredith Marra (2003). Language, humour and ethnic identity marking in New Zealand English. In Mair, Christian (ed.), The Politics of English as a World Language. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 431-195.
25. Holmes, Janet, Maria Stubbe and Bernadette Vine (1999). Analysing New Zealand English in the workplace. New Zealand English Journal 13, 8-12.
26. James, Deborah and Janice Drakich (1993). Understanding gender differences in amount of talk. In Tannen, Deborah (ed.), Gender and Conversational Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 281-312.
27. Jaworski, Adam (1993). The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives. Newbury Park: Sage.
28. Kennedy, Graeme and Shunji Yamazaki (2000). The influence of Māori on the New Zealand English lexicon. In Kirk, John (ed.), Corpora Galore: Analyses and Techniques in Describing English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 33-44.
29. Kress, Gunther (1990). Critical Discourse Analysis. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 11, 84-99.
30. Lakoff, Robin (1975). Language and Women's Place. New York: Harper and Row.
31. Larrue, Janine and Alain Trognon (1993). Organization of turn-taking and mechanisms for turn-taking repairs in a chaired meeting. Journal of Pragmatics 19, 177-196.
32. Laver, John (1981). Linguistic routines and politeness in greeting and parting. In Coulmas, Florian (ed.), Conversational Routine: Explorations in Standardised Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech. The Hague: Mouton, 289-304.
33. Lenk, Uta (1997). Discourse markers. In Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 1 - 17.
34. - (1998a). Discourse markers and global coherence in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 30, 245-257.
35. - (1998b). Marking Discourse Coherence: Functions of Discourse Markers in Spoken English. Tübingen: Narr.
36. Levinson, Stephen C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
37. Locher, Miriam (2004). Power and Politeness in Action: Disagreements in Oral Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
38. Macalister, John (2003). The Presence of Māori words in New Zealand English. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
39. Marra, Meredith (1998). Okay we'll start now I think: The boundaries of meetings. Opening and closing sequences, and framing devices. Unpublished MA paper, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
40. - (2003). Decisions in New Zealand business meetings: a sociolinguistic analysis of power at work. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
41. Metge, Joan (1976). The Māoris in New Zealand. (Revised edition). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
42. Metge, Joan and Patricia Kinloch (1978). Talking Past Each Other? Problems of Cross-Cultural Conununication. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
43. Mullany, Louise (2004). Gender, politeness and institutional power roles: humour as a tactic to gain compliance in workplace business meetings. Multilingua, 23 (1/2), 13-37.
44. Ng, Sik Hung and James Bradac (1993). Power in Language: Verbal Communication and Social Influence. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
45. Romaine, Suzanne (1999). Communicating Gender. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
46. Salmond, Anne (1974). Rituals of encounter among the Māori: Sociolinguistic study of a scene. In Bauman, Richard and Joel Shearer (eds.), Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 192-212.
47. - (1975). Hui. A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings. Wellington: A. H and A. W Reed.
48. Sollitt-Morris, Lynette (1996). Language, gender and power relationships: The enactment of repressive discourse in staff meetings of two subject departments in a New Zealand secondary school. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
49. Spencer-Oatey, Helen (2000). Rapport management: A framework for analysis. In Spencer-Oatey, Helen (ed.), Culturally Speaking. London: Continuum, 11-46.
50. - (2002). Managing rapport in talk: Using rapport sensitive incidents to explore the motivational concerns underlying the management of relations. Journal of Pragmatics 34, 529-545.
51. Spencer-Oatey, Helen and Jianyu Xing (2003). Managing rapport in intercultural business interactions: A comparison of two Chinese-British welcome meetings. Journal of Intercultural Studies 24, 33-46.
52. Spoonley, Paul (1993). Racism and Ethnicity. (2nd ed.). Auckland: Oxford University Press.
53. Spoonley, Paul, David Pearson and Cluny Macpherson (eds.) (1991). Nga Take: Ethnic Relations and Racism in Aotearoal New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore, Press.
54. Statistics New Zealand (2002). The 2001 Survey on the Health of the Māori Language. Wellington: Statistics New Zealand.
55. Stubbe, Maria (1998). Are you listening: Cultural influences on the use of verbal feedback in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 29, 257-289.
56. Stubbe, Maria and Janet Holmes (1995). You know, eh, and other 'exasperating expressions': An analysis of social and stylistic variation in the use of pragmatic devices in a sample of New Zealand English. Language and Communication 15, 63-68.
57. - (2000). Talking Māori or Pākehā: Signaling identity in discourse. In Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), New Zealand English. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 249-278.
58. Talbot, Mary M. (1998). Language and Gender: An Introduction. Oxford: Polity Press.
59. Tannen, Deborah (1994). Gender and Discourse. London: Oxford University Press.
60. Tannen, Deborah (ed.) (1993). Gender and Conversational Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
61. Tracy, Karen and Aaron Dimock (2004). Meetings: Discursive sites for building and fragmenting community. In Kalbfleisch, Pamela (ed.), Communication Yearbook 28. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 127-166.
62. van Dijk, Teun A. (1993). Principles of critical discourse analysis. Discourse and Society 4, 249-283.
63. Vine, Bernadette (2004). Getting Things Done at Work. The Discourse of Power in Workplace Interaction. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
64. Wodak, Ruth (1995). Critical linguistics and the study of institutional communication. In Stevenson, Patrick (ed.), The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural and Pragmatic Perspectives Contemporary German. Oxford: Clarendon, 205-223.