Preference organization of sequence-initiating actions: The case of explicit account solicitations

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-533

  Robinson, Jeffrey D ^a   Bolden, Galina B ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

accounts; conversation analysis; disaffiliation; other initiation of repair; preference; transition space

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955684227     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445610371051     Document Type: Article

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