Moving into interaction-Social practices for initiating encounters at a help desk

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-67

  Mortensen, Kristian ^a   Hazel, Spencer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Institutional interaction; Multimodality; Openings; Social interaction; Spatial convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893494235     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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