"It's not necessarily the words you say...it's your presentation": Teaching the interactional text of the job interview

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1974-1992

  Sniad, Tamara ^a  

^a Center for Afterschool and Community Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult education; Classroom discourse; Communities of practice; Discourse analysis; Interview(ing); Language ideologies; Linguistic anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948859441     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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