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Publication details [#57473]

Spencer-Oatey, Helen. 2013. Relating at work: Facets, dialectics and face. Journal of Pragmatics 58 (1) : 121–137.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | pragmatics | social network | social relationship | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Advocating the study of relating in its own right, instead of via the lens of face, this paper argues that Relational Dialectic Theory and Face Theory provide valued additional analytic perspectives to examine the broader matter of relating at work.