Talk, Work and Institutional Order

...accessible not only to linguists interested in the area, but also to graduate students as well as social scientists and graduate students from cognate areas. (Dariusz Galasinski, University of Wolverhampton)

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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to talk and itsrole in creating workplace practice and relationships. Analytictools drawn from ethnography, conversation analysis, interactionalsociolinguistics and discourse analysis illuminate a range ofworkplace discourses. The book is a key text for graduate studentsas well as for lecturers and and researchers across a range ofdisciplines: sociolinguistics, sociology, culture and communicationstudies, applied linguistics.