The ups & downs of working in telesales : an analysis of the development of prosodic style in a Scottish call centre

This study examines the prosodic style of workers in a Scottish outbound call centre during telesales call openings. I describe the conversational structure and accompanying intonational patterns of a corpus of scripted call centre telephone openings, and investigate if this provides evidence to sug...

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Main Author: Orr, Susan Elizabeth
Published: University of Glasgow 2007
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.754303