Linguistic forms of consultative management discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-101

  Yeung, Lorrita N T ^a  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese management style; Conditionals; Control; Dialectics; Discourse features; Evaluative lexis; Modals; Participative decision making; Questions; Signalling choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032326307     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926598009001004     Document Type: Article

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