Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication

By (author) Jolanta Artiz, Robyn C. Walker Contributions by Donald L. Anderson, Jolanta Aritz, Francessca Bargiela-Chiappini, Micheal Barrett, Lissa L. Broome, Judi Brownwell, John Conley, Stanely Deetz, Misa Fujio, Loizos Heracleous, Daphne Jameson, Kimberly D. Krawiec, John McClellan, Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveria, Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido, Torsten Oliver Salge, Kimberlie Stephens, Hiromasa Tanaka, Gail Fann Thomas

Publication date:

19 December 2011

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Dimensions:

239x163mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781611474374

Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather than simply mirroring or describing it. This collection illustrates the variety of organizational phenomena that might be studied and the range of epistemological and methodological approaches that might be used in discourse analysis techniques.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Four Proposals Toward an Interpretive Theory of the Process of Discursive Reality Construction
Chapter 2: Sustainable Change: A Politically Attentive Discursive Analysis of Collaborative Talk
Chapter 3: Asian Business Discourse(s)
Chapter 4: "Harmonious Disagreement" in Japanese Business Discourse
Chapter 5: Problematizing Political Space Through Discursive Analysis: The Case of the United States Cost Guard and the Live Fire Zones of the Great Lakes
Chapter 6: The Rhetorical Legitimation of Organizational Exploration and Exploration Initiatives
Chapter 7: Introducing British and Spanish Companies to Investors: Building the Corporate Image through the Chairman's Statement
Chapter 8: Benchmarking Organizational Identity: How Who "We" Are Emerges in Team Dialogue
Chapter 9: Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters
Chapter 10: Going Green: How Organizations Use Narrative to Build Commitment to Environmental Values
Conclusion
Index
About the Contributors

The volume is commendable for its rich implicit conception of organizational phenomena related to discourse, power, and inequality. Instead of the more typical focus on a single dimension of difference, the volume attends to such intricate and interwoven issues as domestic relations of diversity and inclusion, heterogeneous national cultures and identities, (post-)colonial relations, power dynamics related to English-language imperatives, and relations with the natural environment.