Prosodic features of bad news and good news in conversation

Language in Society

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-219

  Freese, Jeremy ^a   Maynard, Douglas W ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bad news; Conversation analysis; Good news; Prosody; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032105034     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404500019850     Document Type: Article

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