Drew, Paul and Holt, Elizabeth (1998) Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation. Language in society, 27 (4). pp. 495-522. ISSN 0047-4045
Glenn, Phillip and Holt, Elizabeth (2015) Laughter. In: The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley. ISBN 9781118611463
Glenn, Phillip and Holt, Elizabeth (2013) Introduction. In: Studies of Laughter in Interaction. Continuum Press. ISBN 9781441164797
Glenn, Phillip and Holt, Elizabeth (2013) Studies of laughter in interaction. Continuum Press. ISBN 9781441164797
Holt, Elizabeth (2017) Indirect reported speech in storytelling: its position, design and uses. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 50 (2). pp. 171-187. ISSN 0835-1813
Holt, Elizabeth (2017) "This system's so slow" : Negotiating sequences of laughter and laughables in call-centre interaction. In: Multiple Perspectives on Language Play (Language Play and Creativity). De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 93-118. ISBN 978-1501511844
Holt, Elizabeth (2016) Laughter at Last: Playfulness and laughter in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166
Holt, Elizabeth (2015) Indirect reported speech in interaction. In: Indirect Reports and Pragmatics: Interdisciplinary Studies (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology). Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology . Springer, pp. 167-187. ISBN 978-3319213941
Holt, Elizabeth and Glenn, Phillip (2015) Laughter. In: Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9789027233295
Holt, Elizabeth (2013) ‘There’s many a true word said in jest’: Seriousness and non-seriousness in interaction. In: Studies of Laughter in Interaction. Continuum Press, pp. 69-89. ISBN 9781441164797
Holt, Elizabeth (2013) Conversation Analysis and Laughter. In: The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405198431
Holt, Elizabeth (2012) Using Laugh Responses to Defuse Complaints. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45 (4). pp. 430-448. ISSN 0835-1813
Holt, Elizabeth (2011) On the nature of 'laughables' : laughter as a response to overdone figurative phrases. Pragmatics, 21 (3). pp. 393-410. ISSN 1018-2101
Holt, Elizabeth (2011) There's many a true word spoken in jest : on the seriousness and non-seriousness in interaction. In: 12th International pragmatics conference, 3-8th July 2011, University of Manchester. (Unpublished)
Holt, Elizabeth (2011) There's many a true word spoken in jest : on the seriousness and non-seriousness in interaction. In: Laughter and Humor in Interaction Conference, 23-24th June 2011, Emmerson College, Boston, USA. (Unpublished)
Holt, Elizabeth (2010) Book review: Metaphor in Discourse, by Elena Semino, 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 247. ISBN 9780521686969. Language and Literature, 19 (3). pp. 330-333. ISSN 0963-9470
Holt, Elizabeth (2010) The last laugh: Shared laughter and topic termination. Journal of Pragmatics, 42 (6). pp. 1513-1525. ISSN 0378-2166
Holt, Elizabeth and Johnson, Alison (2010) Socio-pragmatic aspects of legal talk: police interviews and trial discourse. In: The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics . Routledge, pp. 21-36. ISBN 9780415463096
Holt, Elizabeth (2009) The last laugh: laughter in topic termination. In: International Conference on Laughter and Humour in Interaction, 24th - 25th June 2009, University of Huddersfield, UK. (Unpublished)
Holt, Elizabeth (2009) Reported speech. In: The Pragmatics of Interaction. Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights (4). John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 190-205. ISBN 9789027207814
Holt, Elizabeth (2007) Laughter and laughables in conversation. In: 10th International Pragmatics Conference, 8 - 13 July 2007, Goteborg, Sweden. (Unpublished)
Holt, Elizabeth and Clift, Rebecca (2007) Reporting talk: reported speech in interaction. Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics (24). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521824835
Holt, Elizabeth and Drew, Paul (2006) Figures of speech. In: Conversation analysis: Turn design and action formation. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series, 3 . Sage, pp. 117-149. ISBN 9781412918480
Holt, Elizabeth and Johnson, Alison (2006) Formulating the facts: Responses to storytelling in police/suspect interviews. In: International Conference on Conversation Analysis, 10 - 14 May 2006, Helsinki. (Unpublished)
Holt, Elizabeth and Drew, Paul (2005) Figurative Pivots: The Use of Figurative Expressions in Pivotal Topic Transitions. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 38 (1). pp. 35-61. ISSN 0835-1813
Holt, Elizabeth (2002) Enacting impropriety: Reported speech and laughter in conversation. In: ICCA 2002 (International Conference on Conversation Analysis), 17th - 21st May 2002, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Holt, Elizabeth and Drew, Paul (2001) Idiomatic expressions as topical pivots. In: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based & Processing Approaches to Figurative Language (part of Corpus Linguistics Conference 2001), 30th March - 2nd April 2001, Lancaster University.
Holt, Elizabeth (2000) Reporting and Reacting: Concurrent Responses to Reported Speech. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 33 (4). pp. 425-454. ISSN 08351813
Holt, Elizabeth (2000) The use of direct reported speech in 'institutional talk' and 'ordinary conversation'. In: 7th International Pragmatics Conference, 9-14 July 2000, Budapest. (Unpublished)
Holt, Elizabeth (1999) Just gassing: An analysis of direct reported speech in a conversation between employees of a gas supply company. Text: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, 19 (4). pp. 505-537. ISSN 0165-4888
Holt, Elizabeth (1999) Reported speech and recipients’ reactions in interaction. In: Pragmatics in 1998: selected papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference. International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp, pp. 261-275. ISBN 9789080114838
Holt, Elizabeth (1998) I asked him why and he said "wel it's because...": The sequential position and interactional functions of direct and indirect reported speech in conversation. In: 6th International Pragmatics Conference, 19th - 24th July 1998, Reims, France.
Holt, Elizabeth (1996) Reporting on talk: the use of direct reported speech in conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 29 (3). pp. 219-245. ISSN 0835-1813
Holt, Elizabeth (1996) Reporting on talk: the use of direct reported speech in conversation. In: 5th International Pragmatics Conference, 4th - 9th July 1996, Mexico City, Mexico.
Holt, Elizabeth and Drew, Paul (1995) Idiomatic expressions and their role in the organization of topic transition in conversation. In: Idioms: structural and psychological perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 117-131. ISBN 9780805815054
Holt, Elizabeth (1993) The structure of death announcements: Looking on the bright side of death. Text: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, 13 (2). pp. 189-212. ISSN 0165-4888
Holt, Elizabeth (1992) Idioms and topic termination. In: Proceedings of Idioms: International Conference on Idioms. Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence. ISBN 9789074029056
Holt, Elizabeth and Drew, Paul (1988) Complainable matters: the use of idiomatic expressions in making complaints. Social Problems, 35 (4). pp. 398-417. ISSN 0037-7791