Disagreeing to agree: Conflict, (im)politeness and identity in a computer-mediated community

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 742-759

  Graham, Sage Lambert ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Community of practice; Computer mediated communication; Conflict; Discourse analysis; Identity; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847150912     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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