"Just wondering if you could comment on that": Indirect requests for information in corporate earnings calls

Text and Talk

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 661-681

  Camiciottoli, Belinda Crawford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business discourse; Earnings calls; Financial disclosure; Indirect requests; Interactional strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949160797     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2009.034     Document Type: Article

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