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Synopsis
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.
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, a Japanese term roughly meaning the idea of carrying feudalism, paternalism, and family rule into the new industrial society, exemplifies the problem of finding language to characterize organizational management practices across cultures. Westwood (Australian Graduate School of Management) and Linstead (management, U. of Sussex, UK) note that is was not until fairly recently that language vis a vis organizations was viewed solely pragmatically as the medium of communication rather than from theoretical perspectives. These 14 essays employ ethnomethodology, dramaturgy, hermeneutics, "narratologies," and other postmodern lenses to mine for meaning and compare metaphors of organization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)