The helpline call as a ‘language game’: Institutionality at issue

Torode, Brian

doi:10.1075/pbns.143.17tor

In:Calling for Help: Language and social interaction in telephone helplines
Edited by Carolyn Baker, Michael Emmison and Alan Firth
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 143] 2005
► pp. 257–283

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Institutionality at issue

The helpline call as a ‘language game’

Brian Torode

Published online: 13 October 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.143.17tor

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