Linguistic Synchrony in Parasocial Interaction

Communication Studies

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 453-466

  Goode, Jayne ^a   Robinson, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog Reply; Communication Accommodation; Linguistic Synchrony; Parasocial Interaction; Verbal Immediacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880607495     PISSN: 10510974     EISSN: 17451035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2013.773923     Document Type: Article

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