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Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectivesEdited by Katja Pelsmaekers, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 56] 2014
► pp. 181–200
Edited by Katja Pelsmaekers, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 56] 2014
► pp. 181–200
Chapter 9. “There is reason to believe however…”
The construction of trust in Late Modern English correspondence and non-literary prose
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