Embodied experience: Representing risk in speech and gesture

Discourse Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-354

  Sauer, Beverly ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal; Gesture; Miners; Perspective; Rhetoric; Risk; Risk communication; Technical communication; Uncertainty; Viewpoint; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442318955     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445699001003003     Document Type: Article

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