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Personal profile
Biography
Research
Nick's main research focuses on the way in which language is used within organisations, particluarly sports teams. His research to date has investigated leadership development, the construction of team identity in sports teams, and the negotiation of local politeness norms and power within a hierarchy.
Nick also carries out research on language variation and change, and is currently investigating patterns of variation in the way the English Definite Article is realised in Australian English.
Teaching
Nick convenes LING121 Language Myths and Realities, LING219 Introduction to Sociolinguistics and LING332 Culture and Language. He is co-author, with Janet Holmes, of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics.
Research student supervision
Nick is interested in supervising research projects on language and communication in sports contexts, leadership discourse, sociolinguistic variation and change, and sociopragmatics.
Research interests
- interactional sociolinguistics
- language in the workplace
- leadership
- sports discourse
- linguistic ethnography
- language variation and change
Education/Academic qualification
Linguistics, PhD, Victoria University of Wellington
1 Sep 2008 → 15 Feb 2012
External positions
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Dec 2014 → …Research Associate, Language in the Workplace Project, Victoria University of Wellington
4 Dec 2012 → …Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.
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Projects 2018 2019
- 1 Finished
Social functions of chronic injury narratives in male and female team contact sports teams
1/01/18 → 1/01/19
Project: Research
Research Outputs 2009 2019
Academic success: a student's guide to studying at university
Brick, J., Wilson, N., Wong, D. & Herke, M., 2019, United Kingdom: Red Globe Press. 244 p. (Palgrave Study Skills)Research output: Book/Report › Textbook › Research
academic success
university
student
trend
language
Book review: Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates
Wilson, N., 1 Feb 2018, In : Discourse Studies. 20, 1, p. 188-190 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review › Research
book review
sociolinguistics
Book Review: David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, & Jon Jureidini (eds.), The discourse of sport: Analyses from social linguistics. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 240. Hb. £110.
Wilson, N., Jun 2018, In : Language in Society. 47, 3, p. 464-467 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review › Research
book review
Sports
linguistics
discourse
Discourse
Linguistic ethnography
Wilson, N., 2018, The Routledge handbook of language in the workplace. Vine, B. (ed.). New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 40-50 11 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
The portable locker room: language, space, and place in rugby pre-match interaction
Wilson, N., 1 Oct 2018, In : Communication & Sport. 6, 5, p. 547-569 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
religious behavior
interaction
language
discourse
sociolinguistics
Press / Media
Let’s get that bread: How teenagers change language
19/02/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment