Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. This collection explores ways in which individuals, teams or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competentto perform tasks or functions, possibly at a superior level.

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Displaying Competence in Organizations
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1 Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations
2 'Taking Ownership': Language and Ethnicity in the Job Interview
3 Equality for Those Who Are Competent. Discourses on Competencies, Diversity and Equality in the Public Sector
4 The Language of Power: an Analysis of a Corpus of CEO Letters
5 The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate: How PoliticalWeblogs Have Contributed in Shaping the American Electorate's Preferences
6 The Representation of Competence in Newspaper Interviews: a Linguistic–Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of the (Self-) Representation of Journalists and Politicians in Written Interviews
7 Competence on Display: Crafting Stories during Newsroom Editorial Conferences
8 Interpreting Competence: Nursing Staff and Family Members as Ad Hoc Interpreters in Hospitals
9 The Discursive Construal of Purpose by Means of Competence in German and English Corporate Mission Statements
10 'Adam Smith for Diocesan Missioner': Legitimation in Religious Discourse
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