Janet Holmes (linguist)

Janet Holmes
Holmes in 2016
Born (1947-05-17) 17 May 1947 (age 77)
Liverpool, United Kingdom
CitizenshipNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
Scientific career
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington
ThesisThe language of spoken monologue: an analysis of topic and narrative structure. (1970)

Janet Holmes ONZM (born 17 May 1947)[1] is a New Zealand sociolinguist. Her research interests include language and gender, language in the workplace, and New Zealand English.

  1. ^ "New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2017.