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Publication details [#14428]

Yeung, Lorrita N.T. 1998. Linguistic forms of consultative management discourse. Discourse & Society 9 (1) : 81–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | conditional utterance | consulting | modality | question

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

It is shown how managers open up to subordinates' proposals while at the same time keeping the decision-making process under control by using bipolar questions, implicit/explicit if-then structures, and modal expressions in their propositions.