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'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work (2011)
Journal Article
Angouri, J., & Bargiela-Chiappini, F. (2011). 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work. Discourse and Communication, 5(3), 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481311405589

Problem solving (PbS) can be readily described as one of the key activities regularly performed by professionals in any workplace setting. Despite its importance, however, there is relatively little (socio)linguistic research which looks at the compl... Read More about 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work.

Corporate meetings as genre: A study of the role of the chair in corporate meeting talk (2010)
Journal Article
Angouri, J., & Marra, M. (2010). Corporate meetings as genre: A study of the role of the chair in corporate meeting talk. Text and Talk, 30(6), 615-636. https://doi.org/10.1515/TEXT.2010.030

Meetings are the backbone of organizational life and as such constitute an important component of workplace discourse. We expand here upon earlier work which suggests that a meeting constitutes a distinct genre, taking informal rather than formal mee... Read More about Corporate meetings as genre: A study of the role of the chair in corporate meeting talk.