ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the use of just and actually in a corpus of workplace discourse collected by the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project. A corpus linguistics approach explores the frequency of just and actually in the data, whether women or men use these adverbs more, and whether a person’s status may influence their use. The results indicate that status and gender interact, and the gender and status of both speaker and addressee may affect how much a speaker uses just and actually. The corpus approach is then supplemented by a closer qualitative examination using interactional sociolinguistic methods.
