Constructing affiliation and solidarity in job interviews

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 411-432

  Lipovsky, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Appraisal theory; Attitude; Evaluation; Impression management; Job interviews; Solidarity; Systemic Functional Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 54549119455     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481308095938     Document Type: Article

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