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Publication details [#47209]

Koester, Almut Josepha. 2006. Investigating Workplace Discourse. Routledge. 192 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

gossip | politeness | power | small talk | workplace conversation

Annotation

This book combines quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the features of various types of workplace discourse, with special attention for office small talk or gossip, drawing on a corpus of workplace conversations recorded in a variety of both UK and USA office environments.