Bernadette Vine is a Researcher on the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, based at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Bernadette has been part of the core project team since it began in 1996. Bernadette's research interests include workplace communication, leadership and New Zealand English. She is the author of Getting Things Done at Work: The Discourse of Power in Workplace Interaction (2004) and is co-author of Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity (with Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra, 2012). She is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace (2017).

• Part I. Introducing Language in the Workplace: 1. Introducing language in the workplace; 2. Approaches to exploring language in the workplace with contributions by Jonathan Clifton, Janet Holmes, Veronika Koller and Helen Spencer-Oatey; Part II. What Are Some Key Topics in Workplace Research?: 3. Directives and requests at work; 4. Social talk, humour and narrative at work; 5. Complaints, disagreement and conflict talk at work; Part III. What About Identity and the Way This Is Enacted in the Workplace?: 6. The language of leadership; 7. Gender and language at work; 8. Culture and language at work; Part IV. So What?: 9. Implications and applications of workplace research.

'This book provides an excellent resource for anyone interested in workplace communication. Packed with useful real-world examples and providing a very comprehensive account of key topics in professional communication, Introducing Language in the Workplace is both engaging and accessible. I will certainly be using this book for teaching and would highly recommend it to students, practitioners and academics.' Małgorzata Chałupnik, University of Nottingham