Power as Interactional Accomplishment: An Ethnomethodological Perspective on the Regulation of Communicative Practice in Organizations

Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 181-199

  Schneider, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315224954-15     Document Type: Chapter

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