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Publication details [#58423]

Woodhams, Jay Michael. 2014. ‘We’re the nurses’: Metaphor in the discourse of workplace socialisation. Language & Communication 34 : 56–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | language use | metaphor | socialization | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study explores the role of metaphor in workplace socialisation via an analysis of job interaction between a skilled Chinese migrant worker and his allocated adviser in the bookkeeping team of a New Zealand government department.