The agenda as resource for topic introduction in workplace meetings

Discourse Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-66

  Svennevig, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

agenda; chair; Conversation Analysis; document; gesture; meetings; multimodality; topic introduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857812368     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445611427204     Document Type: Article

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