Topical profiling emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining topics in talk

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 308-337

  Kellermann, Kathy ^a   Palomares, Nicholas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Relational development; Relational types; Topic; Topical talk; Topics

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243153913     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X04266811     Document Type: Article

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