'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-229

  Angouri, Jo ^a   Bargiela Chiappini, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

decision making; meeting talk; multinational companies; problem solving talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051771838     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481311405589     Document Type: Article

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