Publications

Publication details [#44016]

Lipovsky, Caroline. 2006. Candidates’ negotiation of their expertise in job interviews. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (8) : 1147–1174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

experience | impression management | job interview | negotiation | politeness

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on politeness theory and from a systemic functional perspective, this article demonstrates how job candidates’ discourse and lexico-grammatical choices influence their interviewers’ impressions.