Concessive Repair and negotiation of affiliation in e-mail discourse

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1587-1600

  Tanskanen, Sanna Kaisa ^a   Karhukorpi, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer mediated interaction; Concessive Repair; E mail discourse; Self repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849123851     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.04.018     Document Type: Article

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