CURRICULUM VITAE. Meredith Helena Marra

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Meredith Helena Marra Academic qualifications 2003 PhD, Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington 1998 MA, Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington 1996 BA with First Class Honours, German, Victoria University of Wellington 1995 BA, German and Japanese, Victoria University of Wellington 1995 BCA, Commerce and Administration, Victoria University of Wellington Professional positions Head, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington Research Fellow/Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington 2003 Lecturer, Department of Communication and Journalism, Massey University at Wellington (Semester two) Research Officer, Victoria University of Wellington Research Assistant, Victoria University of Wellington Awards, scholarships and grants 2015 Victoria University URF (University Research Fund) Grant: Employability and the salience of New Zealand societal norms [$18,552.55] 2014 Victoria University URF (University Research Fund) Grant: The talk between: analysing the discourse of transitions [$ ] 2012 Victoria University URF (University Research Fund) Grant: Culture as a resource [$21000] 2011 Victoria University Teaching Excellence Award 2010/11 International Mobility Fund grant [$9110] 2010 Victoria University Early Career Research Excellence Award 2010 European Union Centres Network Staff Exchange Award [$4993] 2010 Victoria University URF (University Research Fund) Grant: Multicultural and multilingual workplaces in New Zealand [$11536] Associate Investigator: The Language of Leadership in Māori and Pākehā Organisations funded by a Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand [$506000] Victoria University New Researcher Grant: Code-switching and Style-shifting in the Māori workplace [$4954] 2003 Harriet Jenkins Award from New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Victoria University of Wellington PhD scholarship Professional memberships and service Linguistics Society of New Zealand President , acting President Jan-June 2012 Executive Committee member Convenor, 19 th Biennial Conference of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand (November 2011)

2 International Gender and Language Association Co-convenor Conference (July 2008) Australasian Humour Scholars Network Association Organising committee of annual colloquium (Feb 2014) Member of Editorial Board: Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier); Multimodal Communication (Walter de Gruyter); Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practices (Equinox) Regular reviewer for additional international journals including Humor, Journal of Politeness Research, Gender and Language, English for Specific Purposes Examiner of 10 PhD theses, 3 Masters theses Member of: NZ Linguistics Society, Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, International Gender and Language Association, International Pragmatics Association University administration/committee work July current Core member of the Language in the Workplace team. Project Director from July July 2015-current Steering group member, VUW Distinctiveness Theme Health and Wellbeing in our Communities Dec 2010-Feb 2016 Research Director for the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Oct 2011-Nov 2015 Member of VUW Research Establishment Grant Committee (Acting chair from trimester ) Sept Dec 2012 Academic member of working group on establishment of online Human Ethics process Mar Member of Research Committee for Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching and Supervision Previous supervision: PhD Karena Kelly. Aspects of syntactic change in Māori - a corpus based study. (2015) Keely Kidner. Beyond greenwash: Environment discourses of appropriation and resistance. (2015). Melanie Revis. Language maintenance and shift in the Ethiopian and Colombian refugee communities in Wellington. (2015). Jay Woodhams. The discursive construction of political identity. (2015) Primary supervisor Sai Hui. Analysing Interpersonal Relations in Call Centre Discourse.(2014) Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi. Language policy, language practices and language shift in Tabriz. (2014) Ewa Kusmierzyck. The only problem is getting a job: a multimodal discourse analysis of job interviews in New Zealand. (2013) (Winner of the Association for Business Communication Outstanding Dissertation Award) Primary supervisor Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar. Investigating identity construction in intercultural health settings in New Zealand. (2013) Primary supervisor Nicholas Wilson: Leadership as Communicative Practice: The Discursive Construction of Leadership and Team Identity in a New Zealand Rugby Team (2011) Kazuyo Murata: The Discourse of Business Meetings in NZ and in Japan (2011) Leilarna Kingsley: Language Policy and Use in the Banking Sector in Luxembourg (2010)

3 MA Dissertations (60 point and above) Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar (90 point). /Overlaps\: Can simultaneous speech be polite in intercultural workplace interaction? (2009) (Winner of Ian Gordon Prize for best project on English in New Zealand) Sole supervisor Shelley Dawson (60 point). The complexities of identity co-construction: A case study of two language learners trajectories towards a desired future. (2014) Sole supervisor Hamish Weir (60 point). Transitioning from Māori-medium to English-medium education: The experiences and perspectives of three students. (2009) Sole supervisor Current supervision: PhD Ayman Tawalbeh. Language use, maintenance, and attitudes amongst the Iraqi community in Wellington. Submitted for examination September (Primary) Emily Greenbank. Negotiating Employability: Refugee-background students in New Zealand. Expected to complete March (Primary) Shelley Dawson. Identity co-construction in study abroad contexts: Negotiating transitions. Expected to complete July (Primary) Honiara Salanoa. Workplace communication of Samoan seasonal workers. Expected to complete February (Primary) Mohammed Nofal. Language maintenance in the Wellington Hindi-speaking community. Expected to complete September 2019 (Secondary) Teaching ( ) Course coordination and lecturing LING 221 Sociolinguistics (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) LING 330/430 Advanced Sociolinguistics (2012) LING 321/421 Discourse and meaning (2015) LALS 543 Language in the Workplace (2012, 2014) LALS 563 Issues in Sociolinguistics (2012, 2013, 2015) Guest lecturing LING 101 Language and Communication (3 lectures in 2012, 2016, 4 lectures 2014, 6 lectures in 2013, 2015) LING 322 New Zealand English (3 lectures in 2014)

4 Research publications Books Angouri, Jo, Meredith Marra and Janet Holmes (eds.) Negotiating Boundaries at Work. Edinburgh University Press. Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity. New York, Oxford University Press. 192pp. Angouri, Jo and Meredith Marra (eds) Constructing Identities at Work Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 247pp. Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra (eds.) Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Book chapters Marra, Meredith, Janet Holmes and Keely Kidner. forthcoming. Transitions and interactional competence: Negotiating boundaries through talk. To appear in S Pekarek Doehler, A Bangerter, G de Weck, L Filliettaz, E Gonzales-Martines and C Petitjean (eds.), Interactional Competences in Institutional Settings: from School to the Workplace. Palgrave Macmillan. (Revised version accepted after reviews May 2016). Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra. Forthcoming. You re a proper tradesman mate : Identity struggles and workplace transitions. To appear in Dorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), Identity Struggles. Evidence from Workplaces around the World. Springer. Marra, Meredith and Janet Holmes Indirect reports and workplace norms. In Indirect Reports and Pragmatics. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 5, edited by Alessandro Capone, Ferene Kiefer and Franco Lo Piparo (New York, Springer 2016), pp Marra, Meredith 2015.Language and culture in sociolinguistics. In Farzad Sharifan (ed), Handbook of Language and Culture. London: Routledge Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra The complexities of communication in professional workplace. In Vijay Bhatia and Stephen Bremner (eds), Handbook of Professional Communication. London: Routledge Marra, Meredith English in the workplace. In Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield (eds), Handbook of English for Specific Purposes. London: Blackwell Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Brian W. King How permeable is the formal-informal boundary at work? An ethnographic account of the role of food in workplace discourse. In Gerhardt, Frobenius and Ley (eds.), Culinary Linguistics: The Chef s Special. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Marra, Meredith, Janet Holmes and Nicky Riddiford New Zealand s Language in the Workplace project: Workplace communication for skilled migrants. In Mark Krzanowski (ed) English for Work and the Workplace: Approaches, Curricula and Materials. Reading: Garnett, Vine, Bernadette, Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra Mentoring migrants: facilitating the transition to the New Zealand workplace. In Holger Limburg and Miriam Locher (eds.), Advice in Discourse. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins

5 Marra, Meredith and Jo Angouri Investigating the negotiation of identity: A view from the field of workplace discourse. In Jo Angouri and Meredith Marra (eds) Constructing Identities at Work Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Relativity rules: Politic talk in ethnicized workplaces. In Bethan L. Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew John Merrison (eds) Situated Politeness. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, Holmes, Janet, Angela Joe, Meredith Marra, Jonathan Newton, Nicky Riddiford and Bernadette Vine Applying linguistic research to real world problems: The social meaning of talk in workplace interaction. In Chris Candlin and Srikant Sarangi (eds) Handbook in Applied Linguistics: Communication in the Professions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Angouri, Jo and Meredith Marra 2011 OK one last thing for today then': Constructing identities in corporate meeting talk'. In Jo Angouri and Meredith Marra (eds) Constructing Identities at Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, Holmes Janet and Meredith Marra Femininity, feminism and gendered discourse. In Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra (Eds.), Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press Vine, Bernadette, Susan Kell, Meredith Marra and Janet Holmes Boundary-marking humour: Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace. In Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro (eds.), Humor in Interaction. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Marra, Meredith Recording and analyzing talk across cultures. In Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed.) Culturally Speaking: Managing Rapport through Talk Across Cultures (2 nd ed). London: Continuum Schnurr, Stephanie, Meredith Marra and Janet Holmes Impoliteness as a means of contesting power relations in the workplace. In Derek Bousfield and Miriam Locher (eds.), Impoliteness in Language: Studies on its Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Marra, Meredith Humour in workplace meetings: Challenging hierarchies. In Robert Westwood and Carl Rhodes (eds.), Humour, Work and Organization. Oxon and New York: Routledge, Holmes, Janet, Maria Stubbe and Meredith Marra Language, humour and ethnic identity marking in New Zealand English. In Christian Mair (ed) The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Humour as a discursive boundary marker in social interaction. In Anna Duszak (ed.), Us and Others: Social Identities across Languages, Discourses and Cultures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Stubbe, Maria, Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine Forget Mars and Venus, let s get back to earth! Challenging gender stereotypes in the workplace. In Janet Holmes (ed) Gendered Speech in Social Context: Perspectives from Gown and Town. Wellington: Victoria University Press Journal articles Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Keely Kidner, forthcoming. Managing transitions through discourse at work. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. (Revised version accepted after reviews April 2016)

6 Lazzaro-Salazar, Mariana, Meredith Marra, Janet Holmes and Bernadette Vine (2015). Doing power and negotiating through disagreement in public meetings. Pragmatics and Society. 6, 3: Marra, Meredith, Brian W. King and Janet Holmes Trivial, mundane or revealing? A study of topic and ethnic norms in meeting discourse. Language & Communication 34: Holmes, Janet, Sharon Marsden and Meredith Marra Doing listenership: one aspect of sociopragmatic competence at work. Pragmatics and Society 4 (1): Marra, Meredith Disagreeing without being disagreeable: Negotiating workplace communities as an outsider. Journal of Pragmatics 44: Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine Politeness and impoliteness in New Zealand English workplace discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 44: Special edition edited by Michael Haugh and Klaus Schneider. Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Harnessing storytelling as a sociopragmatic skill: Applying narrative research to workplace English courses. TESOL Quarterly 45, 3: Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Leadership discourse in a Maori workplace: negotiating gender, ethnicity and leadership at work. Gender and Language 5, 2: Angouri Jo and Meredith Marra Corporate meetings as genre: a study of the role of the chair in corporate meeting talk. Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, 30, 6: de Bres, Julia, Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine Kia ora matua: Humour and the Māori language in the workplace. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20, 1: Holmes, Janet, Bernadette Vine and Meredith Marra Māori men at work: leadership, discourse and ethnic identity. Intercultural Pragmatics 6, 3: Holmes, Janet, Angela Joe, Meredith Marra, Jonathan Newton, Nicky Riddiford and Bernadette Vine Designing research to track socio-pragmatic skills among professionally qualified workers. New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 15,1: Marra, Meredith Meeting talk: Aligning the classroom with the workplace. Communication Journal of New Zealand 9,1: Marra, Meredith and Janet Holmes Constructing ethnicity in New Zealand workplace stories. Text & Talk 28, 3: Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Stephanie Schnurr Impoliteness and ethnicity: Māori and Pākehā discourse in New Zealand workplaces. Journal of Politeness Research 4, 2: Vine, Bernadette, Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, Dale Pfeifer and Brad Jackson Exploring co-leadership talk through Interactional Sociolinguistics. Leadership 4, 3: Holmes, Janet, Stephanie Schnurr and Meredith Marra Leadership and communication: Discursive evidence of workplace culture change. Discourse & Communication 1, 4: Kell, Susan, Meredith Marra, Janet Holmes and Bernadette Vine Ethnic differences in the dynamics of women s work meetings, Multilingua 26, 4: Schnurr, Stephanie, Meredith Marra and Janet Holmes Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces: Māori and Pākehā leaders. Journal of Pragmatics 39: Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Humour and leadership style. Humor 19, 2:

7 Marra, Meredith and Janet Holmes Workplace narratives and business reports: issues of definition. Text 24, 1: Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Relational practice in the workplace: women's talk or gendered discourse? Language in Society 33: Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Leadership and managing conflict in meetings. Pragmatics 14, 4: Stubbe, Maria, Chris Lane, Jo Hilder, Elaine Vine, Bernadette Vine, Meredith Marra, Janet Holmes and Ann Weatherall Multiple discourse analyses of a workplace interaction. Discourse Studies 5, 3: Holmes, Janet, Louise Burns, Meredith Marra, Maria Stubbe and Bernadette Vine Women managing discourse in the workplace. Women and Management Review 18, 8: Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Having a laugh at work: how humour contributes to workplace culture. Journal of Pragmatics 34: Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra Over the edge? Subversive humour between colleagues and friends. Humor 15,1: Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Louis Burns Women s humour in the workplace: a quantitative analysis. Australian Journal of Communication 28,1: Encyclopedia entries Marra, Meredith (2015). Workplace meeting discourse. In Karen Tracy (ed), International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. John Wiley & Sons. DOI: / /wbielsi161. Marra, Meredith (2014). Subversive humor. In Salvatore Attardo (ed), Encyclopedia of Humour Studies. Sage. Marra, Meredith (2012). Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis. In Carol A Chapelle (ed), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. Book review Marra, Meredith (2014). Review of Marta Dynel (ed) 2011 The Pragmatics of Humour Across Discourse Domains. Pragmatics and Society 5,1 May: Refereed conference proceedings Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra and Bernadette Vine Preparing Pākehā for working with people from other cultures. In Stephen May (ed.), Proceedings of the Language Education and Diversity Conference, Waikato University, November Marra, Meredith, Bernadette Vine and Janet Holmes Heroes, fathers and good mates: leadership styles of men at work. Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2008, Wellington, 9-11 July Marra, Meredith and Janet Holmes Constructing ethnicity and leadership through storytelling at work. ANZCA 05, Christchurch 4-7 July (presented by Meredith Marra). Published in Colleen Mills and Donald Matheson (eds.), Communication at Work: Showcasing Communication Scholarship: Publication of the Annual Meeting of the Australia New Zealand Communication Association