Publications

Publication details [#56830]

Sias, Patricia M., Erin B. Gallagher, Irina Kopaneva and Hannah Pedersen. 2012. Maintaining Workplace Friendships: Perceived Politeness and Predictors of Maintenance Tactic Choice. Communication Research 39 (2) : 239–268.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | politeness | social relationship | task-dependency of processing | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores to what extent perceived politeness, task interdependence and individual adhesion style portend the probability an individual worker will use special workplace peer friendship maintenance strategies.