Expletives as solidarity signals in FTAs on the factory floor

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 945-964

  Daly, Nicola ^a   Holmes, Janet ^a   Newton, Jonathan ^a   Stubbe, Maria ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Complaints; Face threatening speech acts; Refusals; Swearing; Workplace discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342619614     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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