Situational transformations: The offensive-izing of an email message and the public-ization of offensiveness

Pragmatics and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 369-387

  O'Driscoll, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civility; Email communication; Face; Footing; Frame; Interaction; Participation framework; Public private

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887479690     PISSN: 18789714     EISSN: 18789722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ps.4.3.05odr     Document Type: Article

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