Mundane whistleblowing: Social drama in assessment talk

Discourse Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-92

  Tholander, Michael ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

conversational strategies; moral profiles; peer loyalty; self and peer assessment; whistleblowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551611513     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445610387737     Document Type: Article

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