The Language of Organization
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The Language of Organization

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Language of Organization

About this book

The importance of communication for organizations has been an ongoing concern since management was first theorized. Yet language has tended to be viewed as simply a medium of communication - without language per se being theoretically problematized. This book enables a more critical exploration of the major theoretical positions on language and organization, explaining why language warrants a more central and considered place in organization studies.

Language and Organization explains how various perspectives on the relationship between language and organization can be represented and explored. Concerned with issues such as power, knowledge and organizational discourse, this book will provide essential new links for a proper conceptualisation and understanding of organizations.

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Yes, you can access The Language of Organization by Robert Westwood, Stephen Linstead, Robert Westwood,Stephen Linstead in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Chapter 1 - Language/Organization: Introduction
  5. Part 1 - Language, Organization and Action
  6. Chapter 2 - Talking Sense: Ethnomethodology, Postmodernism and Practical Action
  7. Chapter 3 - Language That Organizes: Plans and Lists
  8. Chapter 4 - The Language of Strategy
  9. Part 2 - Metaphors of Organization
  10. Chapter 5 - The Scripted Organization: Dramaturgy from Burke to Baudrillard
  11. Chapter 6 - Mining for Meaning: Reading Organizations using Hermeneutic Philosophy
  12. Chapter 7 - Reclaiming Story in Organization: Narratologies and Action Sciences
  13. Part 3 - Language, Knowledge and Power
  14. Chapter 8 - The Prison-House of Language: The Penitential Discourse of Organizational Power
  15. Chapter 9 - After Knowledge: The Language of Information
  16. Chapter 10 - Rhetoric and Organizational Control: A Framework for Analysis
  17. Part 4 - Organizing Silence
  18. Chapter 11 - Appropriating the other in the Discourses of Comparative Management
  19. Chapter 12 - Telling it like it is? Gender, Language and Organizational Theory
  20. Part 5 - Writing, Theory and Beyond
  21. Chapter 13 - The Language of Organization Theory
  22. Chapter 14 - Meaning Beyond Language? Monstrous Openings
  23. Name Index
  24. Subject Index