Candidates' negotiation of their expertise in job interviews

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1147-1174

  Lipovsky, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

English language; French language; Impression management; Job interviews; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745198252     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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