Directives at work: Exploring the contextual complexity of workplace directives

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1395-1405

  Vine, Bernadette ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Business discourse; Directives; Discourse context; Social context; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349152764     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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