Bernadette Vine
Biographic Data
| ID | 92585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernadette Vine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernadette |
| FAMILY NAME | Vine |
| SIGNATURE | VINE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0156-6439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Analysis of Interaction in Workplaces and Professional Contexts
Interaction in workplaces and professional contexts has become a popular focus for analysis over the last three decades, with an increasingly wide range of settings and types of interactions examined. Numerous aspects of talk have been focused on, with frequent consideration of talk that orients to practical goals (i.e., transactional talk ) as well as talk that takes account of maintaining good relationships (i.e., relational talk ), and the way…
Biculturalism in (inter)action in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Interactional Sociolinguistics analysis of workplace practice in a context of conscious learning
The Complexity of Expressions of Approval—One Aspect of Relational Practice in Diverse Workplaces
The majority of workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand typically include team members from diverse cultural backgrounds, and yet an orientation to majority group norms (in this case, Pākehā) still dominates. In this article, we draw on naturally occurring workplace talk in a range of workplaces to explore both dominant group practices and norms that are influenced by differing cultural orientations. Our focus is relational practice, or people‐oriente…
Doing leadership in style: Pragmatic markers in New Zealand workplace interaction
The Wellington Language in the Workplace Project (LWP) team has devoted considerable attention over the last few decades to researching workplace communication. We have focused especially on the insights that discourse analysis can provide regarding similarities and differences between the two major ethnic groups in New Zealand in “ways of doing things at work”. In this paper, we draw on both quantitative and qualitative analyses of interaction i…
“Climbing the Same Mountain”: Meeting Openings as Bicultural Practice in Two Workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand
The enactment of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand has varied greatly over the time since colonial settlement, and it is still a debated and evolving concept. In this article we examine practices adopted by one Māori Chief Executive Officer in two different workplaces at two different points in time to illustrate this process in action. Our analysis examines the way he opens meetings of his senior management teams, demonstrating the way he ad…
Contesting the Culture Order: Contrastive Pragmatics in Action
Contrastive pragmatics encourages a focus on variation in the ways that different groups enact their distinctive cultural values and norms. In New Zealand, Pākehā (European-based) ways of doing things are the norm, taken-for-granted and rarely questioned or even noted unless someone “breaks the rules”. For minority group members, however, including the indigenous Māori people, Pākehā norms are ever-present reminders of their non-dominant position…
Explicit or implicit? Facilitating interactional competence through mentoring discourse at work
Dans toutes les organisations, il est important d'assurer l'accompagnement des nouveaux venus et des jeunes collaborateurs afin de favoriser le développement professionnel et la compétence interactionnelle. Cet accompagnement peut prendre de nombreuses formes, qu'il s'agisse de commentaires très explicites dans un contexte formel ou d'un mentorat subtil et implicite par le biais de conversations plus anodines. À partir d'interactions spontanées, …
Context Matters: Exploring the Influence of Norms, Values, and Context on a Māori Male Manager
Adopting an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach, this article focuses on one Māori male manager working in an ethnicised Māori workplace and examines the way he adapts his interaction patterns in meetings where he takes on different roles. The role of chair requires being much more active than when simply attending as a member of the team, while the additional responsibility of "acting CEO" adds extra interactional obligations and expectations…
Eh at work: The indexicality of a New Zealand English pragmatic marker
First and second wave sociolinguistic studies of
Doing power and negotiating through disagreement in public meetings
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 institutionally ratified chairs of intact teams, this paper examines how volunteer chairs of small focus groups in public meetings use the power associated with t…
Politeness and impoliteness in ethnic varieties of New Zealand English
Māori men at work: Leadership, discourse, and ethnic identity
This paper explores a specific dimension of intercultural interaction by examining how leadership is enacted specifically through talk by two Māori male managers in New Zealand professional organizations. Any effective leader must be able to provide strong direction to his or her team, as well as having well-developed relational skills, and examples are provided to show how each leader achieves these facets of leadership in a very specific interc…
Directives at work: Exploring the contextual complexity of workplace directives
Exploring Co-leadership Talk Through Interactional Sociolinguistics
This article seeks to bring to the fore the processes by which leaders co-create leadership through collective talk within the workplace. Co-leadership has recently been recognized as an important aspect of leadership practice, especially at the top of organizations, yet it remains under-theorized and empirically under-explored. Guided by the desire to integrate concepts that have emerged from leadership psychology with discursive leadership appr…
Ethnic differences in the dynamics of women's work meetings
While meeting management strategies have been investigated by a number of researchers, the ways in which participants' ethnicity and associated cultural norms may influence the discourse patterns of meetings is still relatively under-examined. Using data from New Zealand meetings, this paper investigates how Pākehā majority group norms typically legitimise assumptions which may prove quite inaccurate in interpreting what is going on in meetings w…
Women managing discourse in the workplace
Despite the fact that women are increasingly reaching the highest levels of management in business organisations, negative stereotypes persist concerning their ability to handle the discourse of leadership. Drawing on a large database of recorded material collected from women in a variety of New Zealand workplaces by the Victoria University of Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, this paper illustrates the value of both qualitative and q…
Multiple Discourse Analyses of a Workplace Interaction
This article explores the contributions that five different approaches to discourse analysis can make to interpreting and understanding the same piece of data. Conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, politeness theory, critical discourse analysis, and discursive psychology are the approaches chosen for comparison. The data is a nine-minute audio recording of a spontaneous workplace interaction. The analyses are compared, and the th…
Constructing professional identity: "Doing power" in policy units
Exploring Co-leadership Talk Through Interactional Sociolinguistics
This article seeks to bring to the fore the processes by which leaders co-create leadership through collective talk within the workplace. Co-leadership has recently been recognized as an important aspect of leadership practice, especially at the top of organizations, yet it remains under-theorized and empirically under-explored. Guided by the desire to integrate concepts that have emerged from leadership psychology with discursive leadership appr…
Politeness and impoliteness in ethnic varieties of New Zealand English
Directives at work: Exploring the contextual complexity of workplace directives
Multiple Discourse Analyses of a Workplace Interaction
This article explores the contributions that five different approaches to discourse analysis can make to interpreting and understanding the same piece of data. Conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, politeness theory, critical discourse analysis, and discursive psychology are the approaches chosen for comparison. The data is a nine-minute audio recording of a spontaneous workplace interaction. The analyses are compared, and the th…
Ethnic differences in the dynamics of women's work meetings
While meeting management strategies have been investigated by a number of researchers, the ways in which participants' ethnicity and associated cultural norms may influence the discourse patterns of meetings is still relatively under-examined. Using data from New Zealand meetings, this paper investigates how Pākehā majority group norms typically legitimise assumptions which may prove quite inaccurate in interpreting what is going on in meetings w…
Māori men at work: Leadership, discourse, and ethnic identity
This paper explores a specific dimension of intercultural interaction by examining how leadership is enacted specifically through talk by two Māori male managers in New Zealand professional organizations. Any effective leader must be able to provide strong direction to his or her team, as well as having well-developed relational skills, and examples are provided to show how each leader achieves these facets of leadership in a very specific interc…
Eh at work: The indexicality of a New Zealand English pragmatic marker
First and second wave sociolinguistic studies of
Constructing professional identity: "Doing power" in policy units
Women managing discourse in the workplace
Despite the fact that women are increasingly reaching the highest levels of management in business organisations, negative stereotypes persist concerning their ability to handle the discourse of leadership. Drawing on a large database of recorded material collected from women in a variety of New Zealand workplaces by the Victoria University of Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, this paper illustrates the value of both qualitative and q…
Multiple Discourse Analyses of a Workplace Interaction
This article explores the contributions that five different approaches to discourse analysis can make to interpreting and understanding the same piece of data. Conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, politeness theory, critical discourse analysis, and discursive psychology are the approaches chosen for comparison. The data is a nine-minute audio recording of a spontaneous workplace interaction. The analyses are compared, and the th…
Ethnic differences in the dynamics of women's work meetings
While meeting management strategies have been investigated by a number of researchers, the ways in which participants' ethnicity and associated cultural norms may influence the discourse patterns of meetings is still relatively under-examined. Using data from New Zealand meetings, this paper investigates how Pākehā majority group norms typically legitimise assumptions which may prove quite inaccurate in interpreting what is going on in meetings w…
Exploring Co-leadership Talk Through Interactional Sociolinguistics
This article seeks to bring to the fore the processes by which leaders co-create leadership through collective talk within the workplace. Co-leadership has recently been recognized as an important aspect of leadership practice, especially at the top of organizations, yet it remains under-theorized and empirically under-explored. Guided by the desire to integrate concepts that have emerged from leadership psychology with discursive leadership appr…
Māori men at work: Leadership, discourse, and ethnic identity
This paper explores a specific dimension of intercultural interaction by examining how leadership is enacted specifically through talk by two Māori male managers in New Zealand professional organizations. Any effective leader must be able to provide strong direction to his or her team, as well as having well-developed relational skills, and examples are provided to show how each leader achieves these facets of leadership in a very specific interc…
Directives at work: Exploring the contextual complexity of workplace directives
Politeness and impoliteness in ethnic varieties of New Zealand English
Doing power and negotiating through disagreement in public meetings
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 institutionally ratified chairs of intact teams, this paper examines how volunteer chairs of small focus groups in public meetings use the power associated with t…
Eh at work: The indexicality of a New Zealand English pragmatic marker
First and second wave sociolinguistic studies of
Explicit or implicit? Facilitating interactional competence through mentoring discourse at work
Dans toutes les organisations, il est important d'assurer l'accompagnement des nouveaux venus et des jeunes collaborateurs afin de favoriser le développement professionnel et la compétence interactionnelle. Cet accompagnement peut prendre de nombreuses formes, qu'il s'agisse de commentaires très explicites dans un contexte formel ou d'un mentorat subtil et implicite par le biais de conversations plus anodines. À partir d'interactions spontanées, …
Context Matters: Exploring the Influence of Norms, Values, and Context on a Māori Male Manager
Adopting an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach, this article focuses on one Māori male manager working in an ethnicised Māori workplace and examines the way he adapts his interaction patterns in meetings where he takes on different roles. The role of chair requires being much more active than when simply attending as a member of the team, while the additional responsibility of "acting CEO" adds extra interactional obligations and expectations…
Contesting the Culture Order: Contrastive Pragmatics in Action
Contrastive pragmatics encourages a focus on variation in the ways that different groups enact their distinctive cultural values and norms. In New Zealand, Pākehā (European-based) ways of doing things are the norm, taken-for-granted and rarely questioned or even noted unless someone “breaks the rules”. For minority group members, however, including the indigenous Māori people, Pākehā norms are ever-present reminders of their non-dominant position…
“Climbing the Same Mountain”: Meeting Openings as Bicultural Practice in Two Workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand
The enactment of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand has varied greatly over the time since colonial settlement, and it is still a debated and evolving concept. In this article we examine practices adopted by one Māori Chief Executive Officer in two different workplaces at two different points in time to illustrate this process in action. Our analysis examines the way he opens meetings of his senior management teams, demonstrating the way he ad…
Doing leadership in style: Pragmatic markers in New Zealand workplace interaction
The Wellington Language in the Workplace Project (LWP) team has devoted considerable attention over the last few decades to researching workplace communication. We have focused especially on the insights that discourse analysis can provide regarding similarities and differences between the two major ethnic groups in New Zealand in “ways of doing things at work”. In this paper, we draw on both quantitative and qualitative analyses of interaction i…
Biculturalism in (inter)action in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Interactional Sociolinguistics analysis of workplace practice in a context of conscious learning
The Complexity of Expressions of Approval—One Aspect of Relational Practice in Diverse Workplaces
The majority of workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand typically include team members from diverse cultural backgrounds, and yet an orientation to majority group norms (in this case, Pākehā) still dominates. In this article, we draw on naturally occurring workplace talk in a range of workplaces to explore both dominant group practices and norms that are influenced by differing cultural orientations. Our focus is relational practice, or people‐oriente…
Analysis of Interaction in Workplaces and Professional Contexts
Interaction in workplaces and professional contexts has become a popular focus for analysis over the last three decades, with an increasingly wide range of settings and types of interactions examined. Numerous aspects of talk have been focused on, with frequent consideration of talk that orients to practical goals (i.e., transactional talk ) as well as talk that takes account of maintaining good relationships (i.e., relational talk ), and the way…
Sociology (16 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)