Raising the dead: Reported speech in medium⇔sitter interaction

Discourse Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 351-374

  Wooffitt, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conversation analysis; discourse and spirits; psychic practitioners

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010977499     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445601003003005     Document Type: Article

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