Story-telling at work: A complex discursive resource for integrating personal professional and social identities

Discourse Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 671-700

  Holmes, Janet ^a,b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b Workplace Project   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Identity construction; Meetings; Narrative; Workplace discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144509996     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445605055422     Document Type: Review

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