Discourse analysis: Exploring action, function and conflict in social texts

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 65-68

  Elliott, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual behaviour; Language; Organizational behaviour; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986078183     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634509610131171     Document Type: Article

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