Linguistic variation in the discourse of outsourced call centers

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 715-736

  Friginal, Eric ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Multi dimensional analysis; Outsourced call center discourse; Register variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57449115203     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608096570     Document Type: Article

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