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Publication details [#46461]

Orr, Winnie W. F. 2007. The bargaining genre: A study of retail encounters in traditional Chinese local markets. Language in Society 36 (1) : 73–103.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
business language | frame | genre | illocution | marketplace conversation
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores the spoken genre of bargaining in retail encounters in traditional southern Chinese markets.