Calling the stops in a Dar-es-Salaam minibus: Embodied understandings of place in a drop-off routine

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1962-1976

  D'hondt, Sigurd ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conversation Analysis; Embodied place; Mutual monitoring; Public transport; Space; Workplace studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149156090     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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