Communities of practice at work: Gender, facework and the power of habitus at an all-female police station and a feminist crisis intervention center in Brazil

Discourse and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 473-505

  Ostermann, Ana Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Conversation analysis; Facework; Habitus; Institutional interaction; Interactional sociolinguistics; Language and gender; Politeness; Symbolic market; Turn taking and turn design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038200387     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926503014004004     Document Type: Review

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