Recontextualization and Communicative Styles in Job Interviews

Discourse Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 223-248

  Scheuer, Jann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

job interviews; personalization; professional communication; recontextualization; style variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993728804     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445601003002004     Document Type: Article

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