Investigating Workplace Discourse (Domains of Discourse)

by Almut Koester (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $70.82

  Featuring a corpus of conversations from the UK and USA, this overview of the characteristics of workplace discourse and the approaches needed to analyze them, pays attention to interactions with a social focus, such as office gossip. It also explores issues, such as politeness, power, conflict and consensus-building.