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The rhetoric of goodbye: Verbal and nonverbal correlates of human leave‐taking

Mark L. Knapp Member of the senior staff of the Communication Research Center, Purdue University
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Roderick P. Hart Member of the senior staff of the Communication Research Center, Purdue University
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Gustav W. Friedrich Member of the senior staff of the Communication Research Center, Purdue University
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Gary M. Shulman Graduate student in communication, Purdue
Pages 182-198 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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