The Language of Outsourced Call Centers A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-346

  Friginal, Eric ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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