Naming and Negotiating Relationships in Call Centre Talk

Globalization, Communication and the Workplace: Talking Across The World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 88-105

  Hood, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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