Social rituals, formulaic speech and small talk at the supermarket checkout

Small Talk

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 183-207

  Kuiper, Koenraad ^a   Flindall, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315838328-10     Document Type: Chapter

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