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Sociolinguist Janet Holmes to lecture on the "feminine" workplace, April 19

Sociolinguist Janet Holmes of Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, will present a University Lecture at Cornell, April 19, on the topic "What is a 'feminine' workplace? Gender stereotypes, discourse and interactional realities."

The lecture by Holmes, a professor who holds a chair in linguistics at Victoria University, will be at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Holmes is well known for her work emphasizing the interaction of language with gender and ethnicity. She is director of the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English and a FRST-funded research project on language in the workplace.

She is a leading figure in the nascent subfield of language and gender, and her research has been especially important in the area of understanding the politeness of speech, in various forms, with gender.

April 12, 2001

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