New Perspectives in Organizational Communication: A Case Book of Methods for Analysing Workplace Text and Talk

Darics, Erika; Clifton, Jonathan

This book showcases various methodological approaches to the analysis of organizational talk and text. Arguing that organizations are discursive constructions that are communicatively constituted, the authors use the analysis of transcripts of audio-recordings of naturally-occurring workplace talk and authentic written texts to demonstrate what applied linguistics has to offer to scholarly research into organizations as well as management practice and training. The authors discuss the theoretical underpinnings of discursive approaches to the role language in the communicative constitution of organization, and then each chapter focuses on one particular analytical approach.  The chapters cover conversation analysis; membership categorization analysis, positioning theory; ventriloquism; metaphor analysis; and metadiscourse analysis and computer-mediated discourse analysis. Consequently, this interdisciplinary work presents a number of methods that allow researchers unfamiliar with fine-grained linguistic analyses of naturally-occurring talk and text to explore ways of adding to their repertoire of research skills.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-09-05

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031302015

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30199-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 194