Relativity Rules: Politic Talk in Ethnicized Workplaces

Situated Politeness

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-52

  Holmes, Janet ^a   Marra, Meredith ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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