Textual agency: How texts do things in organizational settings

Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-393

  Cooren, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Constitution; Discourse; Organization; Speech acts; Text

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442567932     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508404041998     Document Type: Review

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