"Actually i was the star": Managing attributions in conversation

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Finlay, Sara Jane ^a   Faulkner, Guy ^b  

^a SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attributions; Conversation analysis; Discursive psychology; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342928678     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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