Publications

Publication details [#53207]

Koester, Almut Josepha and Michael Handford. 2010. “It's not rocket science”: metaphors and idioms in conflictual business meetings. Text & Talk 30 (1) : 27–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | conflict | idiom | meeting | metaphor

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This study discusses how metaphors and idioms are used to mark divergence in two anomalous conflictual business meetings extracted from two corpora of spoken business and workplace interaction.