Organizational discourse

Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 283-302

  Mumby, Dennis K ^a   Mease, Jennifer ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. The following short list of further reading will provide you with both conceptual and empirical studies that will aid you in better understanding how scholars go about trying to understand how organizational reality is constructed discursively.
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3. An excellent discussion of the distinction between 'Discourse' and 'dicourse' that we discuss in the chapter.
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5. A great example of how gendered workplace identities are constructed through workers' everyday discourses.
6. Grant, D., Hardy, C., Oswick, C., Phillips, N. and Putnam, L. L. (eds) (2004) Handbook of Organizational Discourse. London: Sage.
7. A 'state of the art' overview of theory and research in the study of organizational discourse; brings together scholars from the fields of management and organizational communication.
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9. Provides a close, micro-level, 'communities of practice' approach to everyday workplace talk, examining how gendered structures of inclusion and exclusion are created.
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11. An early example of how organizational storytelling can be analyzed from a discourse approach.
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