"Are you my friend?": Negotiating friendship in conversations between network marketers and their prospects

Language in Society

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 487-522

  Kong, Kenneth C C ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Culture; Discourse analysis; Friendship; Identity; Network marketing; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141859793     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404503324029     Document Type: Article

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