A5064117991- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Education Systems and Policy
- European and International Law Studies
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Gender Studies in Language
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Victoria University of Wellington
2007-2023
Victoria University
2003
This article explores the contributions that five different approaches to discourse analysis can make interpreting and understanding same piece of data. Conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, politeness theory, critical discursive psychology are chosen for comparison. The data is a nine-minute audio recording spontaneous workplace interaction. analyses compared, theoretical methodological implications discussed.
This article seeks to bring the fore processes by which leaders co-create leadership through collective talk within workplace. Co-leadership has recently been recognized as an important aspect of practice, especially at top organizations, yet it remains under-theorized and empirically under-explored. Guided desire integrate concepts that have emerged from psychology with discursive approaches, this exploratory empirical study applies a specific form discourse analysis, interactional...
Abstract First and second wave sociolinguistic studies of
Abstract Despite the fact that women are increasingly reaching highest levels of management in business organisations, negative stereotypes persist concerning their ability to handle discourse leadership. Drawing on a large database recorded material collected from variety New Zealand workplaces by Victoria University Wellington Language Workplace Project, this paper illustrates value both qualitative and quantitative analysis challenging such stereotypes. The indicates effective managers...
Abstract Contrastive pragmatics encourages a focus on variation in the ways that different groups enact their distinctive cultural values and norms. In New Zealand, Pākehā (European-based) of doing things are norm, taken-for-granted rarely questioned or even noted unless someone “breaks rules”. For minority group members, however, including indigenous Māori people, norms ever-present reminders non-dominant position. workplace contexts we have researched, awareness these is particularly...
Abstract While meeting management strategies have been investigated by a number of researchers, the ways in which participants' ethnicity and associated cultural norms may influence discourse patterns meetings is still relatively under-examined. Using data from New Zealand meetings, this paper investigates how Pākehā majority group typically legitimise assumptions prove quite inaccurate interpreting what going on where Māori participants predominate. CDA framework, analysis identifies some...
Abstract The Wellington Language in the Workplace Project (LWP) team has devoted considerable attention over last few decades to researching workplace communication. We have focused especially on insights that discourse analysis can provide regarding similarities and differences between two major ethnic groups New Zealand “ways of doing things at work”. In this paper, we draw both quantitative qualitative analyses interaction Māori Pākehā workplaces demonstrate how these complementary...
This paper explores a specific dimension of intercultural interaction by examining how leadership is enacted specifically through talk two Māori male managers in New Zealand professional organizations. Any effective leader must be able to provide strong direction his or her team, as well having well-developed relational skills, and examples are provided show each achieves these facets very context. Both leaders work organizations within society with predominantly western (Pākehā) values, but...
Many aspects of the use Maori language are highly controversial in New Zealand, and humour is one way which sensitivities relating to can be negotiated everyday workplace contexts. This article examines by Pakeha participants during humorous episodes at staff meetings a organisation Zealand. The analysed include indirectly language, where not topic discussion but its plays an important implicit role, as well directly focussed on explicit humour. Use these includes greetings, pronunciation...