Marilyn R. Whalen, Don H. Zimmerman, Sequential and Institutional Contexts in Calls for Help, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: Language and Social Interaction (Jun., 1987), pp. 172-185
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