Cleaning up for company: Using participant roles to understand fieldworker effect

Language in Society

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 707-727

  Wertheim, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience design; Bilingualism; Fieldworker effect; Russia; Style shifting; Tatar

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947359406     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404506060337     Document Type: Article

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