Epistemic authority in employment interviews: Glancing, pointing, touching

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-22

  Glenn, Phillip ^a   LeBaron, Curtis ^b  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Conversation analysis; Employment interviews; Epistemic authority; Gaze; Gesture; Multimodality; Questions; Touch

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551651351     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481310390161     Document Type: Article

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