Affectivity in conversational storytelling: An analysis of displays of anger or indignation in complaint stories

Pragmatics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-277

  Selting, Margret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affectivity in conversation; Complaint stories; Interactional linguistics; Multimodality of interaction; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952882611     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.20.2.06sel     Document Type: Article

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