Doing collegiality and keeping control at work: Small talk in government departments

Small Talk

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 32-61

  Holmes, Janet ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315838328-3     Document Type: Chapter

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