Formulations and the facilitation of common agreement in meetings talk

Text and Talk

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-296

  Barnes, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candidate pre closings; Conversation analysis; Decision making; Formulations; Meetings talk; Topic transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249931437     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2007.011     Document Type: Review

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