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Publication details [#49113]

Friginal, Eric. 2008. Linguistic variation in the discourse of outsourced call centers. Discourse Studies 10 (6) : 15–736.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper examines linguistic variation in the discourse of outsourced call centers involving Filipino call-takers and American callers engaged in different kinds of customer service transactions. It explores in particular the statistical co-occurrence of linguistic features and how speakers employ these features and speech patterns based on role, gender, and service transaction type. The research model follows Biber's (1988) quantitative multi-dimensional framework.