“‘We don’t need to abide by that!’ Negotiating Professional Roles in Problem-Solving Talk at Work” – Dr Kyoungmi Kim and Professor Jo Angouri

We focus on how interactants negotiate their own agendas and that of their interlocutors in the problem-solving meeting in a multinational company.

– Kim and Angouri (173)

This article discusses problem-solving in corporate meetings. Dr Kyoungmi Kim and Dr Jo Angouri focus on how interactants negotiate agendas in a problem-solving meeting.

Role enactment in our analysis becomes intrinsic to the unfolding of the problem-solving interaction, foregrounding and negotiating diverging perspectives on issues, situations, and proposals .

– Kim and Angouri (187)

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