Janet Holmes (linguist)
Janet Holmes | |
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Holmes in 2016 | |
| Born | 17 May 1947 Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Thesis | The language of spoken monologue: an analysis of topic and narrative structure. (1970) |
Janet Holmes ONZM (born 17 May 1947) is a New Zealand sociolinguist. Her research interests include language and gender, language in the workplace, and New Zealand English.