Rapport - How the weight it carries affects the way it is managed

Text and Talk

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-172

  Ho, Victor C K ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

community of practice; e mail; interdiscursivity; move; rapport management; rhetorical approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952429017     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2011.007     Document Type: Review

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