Getting Things Done at Work: The discourse of power in workplace interaction
Bernadette Vine
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 124] 2004. x, 278 pp.
Bernadette Vine
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bernadette Vine plays a role.
Title
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Industrial & organizational studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2022 Workplace interaction Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 177–198 | Chapter
2015 Doing power and negotiating through disagreement in public meetings Pragmatics and Society 6:3, pp. 444–464 | Article
Power in meetings may be enacted in many ways, ranging from democratic and collaborative through to authoritative and didactic, with the exact positioning on this continuum typically under the control of the chair. By contrast with the focus of most previous research on the behaviour of… read more
2012 Chapter 7. Mentoring migrants: Facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace Advice in Discourse, Limberg, Holger and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 145–166 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on face-to-face advice provided to two Chinese male migrants to facilitate the transition from an educational to a workplace context. The migrants are completing a course aimed at helping them develop sociopragmatic competence in New Zealand English and as part of this course… read more
2010 Kia ora matua: Humour and the Maori language in the workplace Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20:1, pp. 46–68 | Article
Many aspects of the use of the Maori language are highly controversial in New Zealand, and humour is one way in which the sensitivities relating to the language can be negotiated in everyday workplace contexts. This article examines the use of the Maori language by Maori and Pakeha participants… read more
2009 Boundary-marking humor: Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 125–140 | Article
Drawing on recorded workplace meetings of Maori and Pakeha women in one New Zealand government department, this paper illustrates some of the complexities of boundary-marking humor. In particular, we analyse examples where the humor illuminates some of the tensions experienced by less powerful… read more