Silence and its organization in the pragmatics of introspection

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 379-406

  Wooffitt, Robin ^a   Holt, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interaction; Introspection; Participation in experiments; Silence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953170740     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445609358520     Document Type: Article

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