Towards a conversational culture? How participants establish strategies for co-ordinating chat postings in the context of in-service training

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-105

  Nilsen, Mona ^a   Mäkitalo, Åsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Co ordinating strategies; Computer mediated communication; Continuity; Discontinuity; Food industry; Instructional setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649267495     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445609346774     Document Type: Article

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